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PREFACE. 



There are two modes of studying the Gospel 
history. One is that of taking up the several 
Gospels consecutively, that is, in the order of 
their arrangement in our New Testaments. The 
other is chronologically, or, in the order of time. 
This second method requires the classification of 
events on the plan of a " Harmony.*' Both 
methods are good, and each one has its particular 
advantages. 

To suit all who desire to study the Gospels 
chronologically, we publish Longking's Questions 
and jSfotes, in four volumes each ; and Strong's 
Questions and Harmony, each in a single 
volume. 

To suit those who wish to study the Gospels 
consecutively, we have a brief and condensed 
Question Book on the New Testament, and we 
now issue a series of separate Question Books 
on the several Gospels. 



4 PREFACE. 

These questions have been prepared expressly 
to meet the present wants of Sunday schools. 
The particular object of the consecutive questions 
is to make the scholar familiar with the Gospels 
preparatory to more involved and critical study 
on the basis of chronology. 

Notwithstanding their elementary character, 
no Scripture difficulty has been intentionally 
passed over ; but where the answer might not be 
readily obtained, the appropriate one has been 
given m the question book. Occasionally, to in- 
spire the zeal of the pupil and the interest of the 
teacher, an answer has been withheld, which it 
may require thought and inquiry to obtain. 

As it is important that the scholar should com- 
mit the answers to the questions before the hour 
of recitation, but few Scripture references are 
given, and when given there is rarely more than 
one, and that one as direct as possible. 

"With these brief explanations of their design 
we commit the present series of consecutive 
questions into the hands of those who desire 
them, praying that these among other good 
agencies, may tend to lead all who may use 
them, early and directly to the " Lamb of God, 
which taketh away the sin of the world." 

New-York, July, 1855. 



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CQiNTEiSTS. 

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I. The .Genealogy of Christ.— Chapter !, 1-25 T 

IL The Birth of Chri>t.— Chapter ii.a-23 .;......, .'. 9 

t III. John the Baptise— Chapter iii. 1-17. IS 

IV. The Temptation — Commencement of ■" "Christ's 

Preaehirig.— Chapter" ir, T-25 .:..... ." 13 

V OferWD the Mount.— Chapter v. 1-2- V. . . .,, . ■ - 23 
r VI. Continuation of Sermon on the 'Mount.— Chapter 

v, . i :i-4b. &>j ■>•- ......-...;.....,;..;/ 28 

VII. Sermon on the Mount . eontinuec!. —Chapter 

vt 1-1 S. j • :.: r 38 

VIII.- Sermon on the = Mount continued.— Chanter 

, vi, 19-81. ,...,.... : ... i ;;:^T 

IX. Sermon- upon "til's; Mount eonehideu. — Chapter _' 

, Yii,l-29 :. 41 

X. Healing the Leper, andths Centurion's .%rv.ai:f-'-— Z .- 3E 

Chapter yiu\ 1-17. .-,.,.,.. 47 

XL Christ eaims the Sea,, and :easts oufc BeTils.— 

Chapter. Till,. 13-3-1. , vr... , ...... ss$ 60 

XII- Curing of the PaUv — Calling of Yn^ti^w— 

Chapter i_\vl-i; T . .". , J ..... . . ......... 54 

XIII. Raising to Life oiHhe Ruler's. Daughter— Chapter- •- r? 

K^-' ■•• ...... ...........r. oT 

XIV. The Appointment £ikI- sending forth of the Apos- 

tles:- Chanter x v l-H. \\,,~. ...... ....... .,-...-.: W 

.':_ .XV. Commission; of. the Apostles.— Chapter x\ 19-42^-' """C5 
" XVI. Christ's Answer 'to the ".Diseiples'of -John the Bap* - 

tist;— Chapter xi, UW.. T .....'. ... . . :. " 70 

XVII. Appropriate Work for the Sabbath. — Chapter 

xii, 1-21 75 

XVIII. The Sin against the Holy Ghost — Unbelief 

Rebuked.— Chapter xii, 22-5*3 79 



b CONTENTS. 

Lesson Subject. Pass 

XIX. The Parable of the Sower.— Chapter xiii, 1-80 84 
XX. The Parable of the Sower explained.— Chapter 

xiii, 31-58 88 

XXI. Death of John the Baptist — Feeding the Mul- 
titude — "Walking upon the Sea. — Chapter 

xiv, 1-86 92 

XXII. Traditions of the Elders.— Chapter xv, 1-20 .... 97 

XXIII. The Woman of Canaan.— Chapter xv, 21-39 .... 100 

XXIV. The Pharisees and Sadducees rebuked— Christ 

foreshoweth his Death.— Chapter xvi, 1-28 108 

XXV. The Transfiguration.— Chapter xvii, 1-27 103 

XXVI. The Disciples instructed by Christ.— Chapter 

xviii, 1-20 113 

XXVII. Forgiveness and Brotherly Love. — Chapter 

xviii, 21-35 117 

XXVIII. Little Children blessed— The Eich Young Man 

who came to Jesus. — Chapter xix, 1-30 119 

XXIX. Parable of the Vineyard — The Blind Man 

healed.— Chapter xx, 1-34 128 

XXX. Christ's Entrance into Jerusalem. — Chapter 

xxi, 1-22 127 

XXXI. Parables of the Two Sons and the Wicked 

Husbandmen. — Chapter xxi, 23-46 131 

XXXII. The Wedding Garment— Chapter xxii, 1-46. . . 185 

XXXIII. Christ's Discourse to the Multitude in Jerusa- 

lem.— Chapter xxiii, 1-39 140 

XXXIV. Destruction of Jerusalem foretold. — Chapter 

xxiv, 1-26 146 

XXXV. The Second Coming of Christ foretold.— Chap- 
ter xxiv, 27-51 149 

XXXVI. Parable of the Ten Virgins, and of the Sheep 

and Goats. — Chapter xxv, 1-46 158 

XXXVII. Jesus in Bethany — Institution of Lord's Sup- 
per. — Chapter xxvi, 1-29 158 

XXXVIII. Gethsemane.— Chapter xxvi, 30-75 162 

XXXIX. Christ before Pilate.— Chapter xxvii, 1-34. ... 168 

XL. The Crucifixion.— Chapter xxvii, 35-66 172 

XLI. The Resurrection.— Chapter xxviii, 1-20 177 



QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 



LESSON I. 

THE GENEALOGY OF CHRIST. 

Chapter i 5 1=25» 

By whom was this Gospel written ? 

How many Gospels are there ? 

What is the meaning of the word Gospel ? (Good news, 

or glad tidings.) 
Of whom do the four Gospels give a history ? 
Do they relate different events in his life ? (They do not 

altogether ; they all describe some events, while others, 

omitted in one Gospel, are found in another.) 
When they describe the same events do they use the 

same language '? (They do not, but express the same 

meaning in different words.) 
What is the advantage of this course ? (We have the 

testimony of four persons, instead of one only, to the 

principal events in the life of Christ, while more of his 

doings and sayings are written than one person could 

have seen or described.) 
Who was Matthew ? (See Bible Scholar's Manual, page 

206.) 

1-17. Whose genealogy is given in the first 
seventeen verses? 

What is the meaning of genealogy f (A list of ancestors, 
a family record.) 



8 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Leg. 1. 

"What was the object of this genealogy? (It was prom- 
ised to Abraham that Christ should descend from him, 
and also to David that Christ should be his son, Gen. 
xii, 3 ; Psa. lxxxix, 3, 4 ; therefore unless Jesus is a 
son of David, and a son of Abraham, he is not the 
Messiah. In this chapter, from well-known records, 
he is proved so to be.) 

18. What was the name of the mother of 
Jesus ? 

To whom was she espoused ? 

What is the meaning of espoused ? (Engaged to be mar- 
ried.) 

19. What is said of the character of Joseph ? 

20. Who appeared to him ? 
What did the angel say to him ? 

21. What name should be given to her son ? 
Why should he be so called ? 

22. What was fulfilled by this? 

23. Eepeat the prophecy. 

Where i3 this prophecy written ? (Isa. vii, 14.) 
What is the meaning of God with «s? (God in our 
nature.) 

24. What did Joseph do when he awoke 
from sleep ? 

25. What name did he give to the child? 

Why was Jesus Christ thus born into this world ? 

Can you think of any reasons why he came into this 

world as a child, and not as a man ? 
What benefit have you received from the coming of Jesus 

Christ into this world ? 



Ch.2.] QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 



LESSON II. 

THE BIRTH OF CHRIST. 

Chapter ii, 1-23. 

1. Where was Jesus born ? 
In the days of what king ? 
Who came to Jerusalem ? 

Where was Bethlehem, and what account can yon give 

of it? (See Bible Scholar's Manual, page 104.) 
What of Jerusalem ? (Ditto, page 89.) 
W^hat of King Herod ? (See Bible Dictionary.) 
W T ho are meant by wise men from the East I (Learned 
men, called magi, in Persia and other eastern countries. 
They paid much attention to astronomy and astrology, 
predicting future events from the appearance of the 
stars ; they would likely be the first to notice a new 
star in the heavens.) 

2. What question did they ask ? 
What had they seen ? 

For what purpose had they come? 

Whom did they mean by King of the Jews ? (There was 
a general expectation throughout the countries of the 
East, founded probably upon the reports of the Jews 
who had been carried thither into captivity, and who 
remembered the prophecies, that God was about to 
raise up a great King to reign over the Jews.) 

Why should they think that this was his star ? 

What is here meant by worship ? (Homage, respect, 
adoration.) 

3. How was Herod affected when he he&rfz 

this ? - " %$%*& 5191177 

Who besides him were troubled ? BriW. Si 



10 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 2. 

Why should this inquiry trouble Herod ? (He feared ho 
should lose his throne, being himself a usurper.) 

Why were the people of Jerusalem troubled ? (Knowing 
the cruel and suspicious disposition of Herod, they 
feared he would make the inquiry an occasion for more 
bloodshed.) 

4. Whom did he call together ? 
What did he ask of them ? 

Who were the chief priests ? (The heads of the twenty- 
four courses or families of priests, 1 Chron. xxiv, 6 ; 
the expression " chief priests and scribes" sometimes 
means the sanhedrim or council.) 

Who are meant by the scribes ? (They were persons em- 
ployed in writing out copies of the Old Testament.) 

Why would these persons be supposed to be able to an- 
swer the king's question ? 

Why did Herod wish to know where Christ should be 
born ? 

5. What answer did they make the king ? 

6. What had the prophet written ? 

What prophet is referred to ? (Micah v, 2.) 
Who is referred to under the title of governor ? 

7. What did Herod then do ? 
What inquiry did he make of them ? 

What is meant by privily f 

Why did he call them in this way? 

8. Whither did he send them? 
What did he tell them to do ? 

For what purpose did he say he wished 
them to bring him word ? 

What was the real object for which Herod desired to know 
where Jesus was ? 

9. What did the wise men then do ? 



Cli. 2:: QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 11 

What happened as they departed ? 

10. How were they affected by the sight of 
the star ? 

Can you think of any reasons for this '? 

11. When they reached the house, what did 
they see ? 

What did they do ? 

What presents did they make ? 

What is meant by fell down and worshiped? (It is the 
custom even at the present day, in the East, to express 
respect or reverence by kneeling, placing the head be- 
tween the knees, and touching the ground with the 
forehead.) 

What is frankincense f (An aromatic gum distilled from 
a tree growing in Arabia, of high cost, and valued for 
its rich perfume.) 

What is myrrh ? (The fragrant gum of another Arabian 
tree.) 

12. What warning did God give them in a 
dream ? 

What did they do ? 

Why were they warned not to return to Herod? 

13. To whom did an angel of the Lord now 



appear ? 



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What did he say to him ? 

What was the direction of Egypt from Bethlehem ? 
How would their going into Esrypt save them from 
Herod ! 

14. What did Joseph do ? 

15. How long did he remain there? 
What prophecy was now fulfilled ? 



12 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 2. 

Where i3 this prophecy written? (Hosea xi, 1-7.) 
How do you think Joseph and his family were supported 
in Egypt ? (See the latter part of the eleventh verse.) 

16. What did Herod now see? 
How did it affect liini ? 
What did he do ? 

What is the meaning of mocked i 

Why did he destroy all the children of that age ? 

What is meant by in all the coasts thereof f (The adjacent 

villages — the word coasts now is applied solely to th.3 

shores of the ocean or sea.) 

17. What was now fulfilled ? 

Who was Jcremv, and where is this written? (Jer, xxki, 

18. What was this prophecy?. 

Who was Rachel ? 

Why should she be represented as weeping at this' time ? 

Where was Rama? (Bible Scholar's Manual, page 113.) 

1 9. What happened upbnv ~ffie r i&&th? hf He- 
rod? 

20. What did the angel say to him? 

How did he assure him that it wonM fe 
safe .to do, so? 

21. What did Joseph then do ? 

22. Who did he hea^rwast reigning in Jii* 
dea? 

Who was he; . 

How was Joseph affected ? 1 bw&& 

What was he directed to 4o£ ryr ^^ , ; 

Where was. Galilee? (See Bible Scholar's Manual, p, 95») \ 
Why should he fear. Archelaus ? ' _ 

Why was he s"»fer in:G alii ee. than in Judea? . )i3fl f? 



Ch. S.] QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 13 

23. Where did Joseph bring his family ? 
What prophecy was then fulfilled ? 

Where is this written? 

Where is Xazareth? How was it regarded by the Jews? 

(John i, 46.) 
What events can you mention in this lesson, illustrating 

the providence of God? 



LESSON III. 

JOHN THE BAPTIST. 
Chapter iii, 1-17. 

1. Who came in those days? 
Where did he preach ? 

What days are referred to in this verse? (When Jesus 
was living at Xazareth. The events related in this 
chapter occurred from twenty-eight to thirty years 
after those recorded in the previous chapter.) 

Why was the title Baptist given to John ? 

What part of the country was called the wilderness of 
Judeat (The thinly inhabited portion of country, be- 
tween Jerusalem and Jericho, and extending south to 
Edom.) 

2. How did John preach ? 
Why should they repent? 

What is it to repent ? 

What are the evidences of sincere repentance ? 
Have you any occasion to repent ? 

If you do not repent of your sins, what must be the con- 
sequence ? 



14 QUESTIONS ON -MATTHEW. IXes. S. 

What is meant by the kingdom of heaven & (The Gos- 
pel dispensation, or that spiritual kingdom of which 
Christ is the head, which is commenced in this world, 
but is to be perfected in heaven.) 

What is meant by is at hand f 

Who now belong to this kingdom ? 

3. Who had spoken of John ? 
What had Esaias said ? 

Who is meant by Esaias ? 

Where is the prophecy found? (Isa. xl, 3.) 

How long before the appearance of John was this prophecy 
written? (About seven hundred and fifty years.) 

To what custom is allusion had in the words, prepare ye 
the way of the Lord? (To the eastern custom of sending 
persons to smooth and level the roads before kings and 
princes when they passed through any country.) 

How did John prepare the way of the Lord ? 

4. What is said of the raiment of John? 
What had he about his loins ? 

What was his food? 

What kind of cloth is referred to here as made of camels* 
hair ? (Not the beautiful cloth made of the fine hair 
of the camel, called camlet, but a coarse stuff made of 
the shaggy hair, probably the sackcloth so often men- 
tioned in the Scriptures.) 

What were the locusts mentioned here ? (Like our grass- 
hoppers, but about three inches in length, often filling 
the air in the east by their numbeis and devouring 
every green thing. They were often eaten by the 
poorer classes for food.) 

What was the wild honey ? (Palestine, a land " flowing 
with milk and honey," was noted for its abundance of 
wild bees, who deposited their honey in hollow trees 
and the clefts of the rocks.) 

Why is the food of John mentioned ? (To show, simply, 
that John used the food and clothing common to the 
poorest of the people, he being a poor man, in a worldly 
sense.) 



Ch. 8.] QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 15 

5. Who went out to hear him preach ? 

What is meant by Jerusalem and all Judea ? 
What account can you give of the river Jordan ? (Bible 
Scholar's Manual, p. 79.) 

6. What rite did John administer to them ? 
What did they do at the time? 

What is meant by were baptized of him f 

What by confessing their sins ? 

How does this confession differ from that which Roman- 
ists make to their priests ? 

How often, and in what manner, should we confess our 
sins ? 

7. Whom did John see at his baptism ? 
What did he say to them ? 

Who were the Pharisees ? (Bible Scholar's Manual, page 
130.) 

Who were the Sadducees? (Ditto, page 131.) 

What is a viper? (A species of venomous serpent.) 

Why did John liken these persons to vipers ? (Because 
their motive for coming was bad, and they were, in 
their characters, crafty, designing, malignant, bearing 
the traits of the old serpent, the great enemy of man- 
kind.) 

What is meant by the wrath to come t 

Are we in any danger of this? 

How may we escape it ? 

8. What did he tell them to do ? 

What are meant by fruits meet for repentance ? 
What by bring forth f 

9. What should they not say ? 
What was God able to do ? 

Who was Abraham ? 

Why did the Jews boast that they were the descendants 
of Abraham? 



16 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 3. 

What did John mean by saying that God was able, " of 
these stones, to raise up children to Abraham ?" (The 
favor of God does not depend upon birth or descent ; 
of the Gentiles whom they despised and looked upon 
as hard and as worthless as the stones, or even of the 
inanimate stones, God was able to raise up true spiritual 
followers of faithful Abraham.) 

10. What further did John say to them ? 
What should become of the bad tree ? 

What is meant by " the ax is laid unto the root of the 
trees ?" (The hour of judgment and retribution is at 
hand ?) 

What by every tree, &c. ? (Good and bad men are often 
compared to good and bad trees Psa. i, 3 ; Dan. iv, II. 
By this proverbial phrase, he means as useless trees 
are cut down and burned, so bad men are destined to be 
rejected of God and punished. Luke iii, 9.) 

11. What did John do for them ? 

What does he say of him that should come 

after him ? 
What should he do for them ? 

What is meant by baptize icith water unto repentance t (By 
receiving this rite you solemnly profess repentance of 
your sins.) 

Of whom did he speak as coming after him? 

What did he mean by whose shoes I am not worthy to bear ? 
(I am not worthy to be his servant, to perform menial 
offices for him. The shoes or sandals, covering only 
the bottom of the feet, were always unloosened and 
taken away, and the feet washed upon coming into the 
house.) 

What is meant by with the Holy Ghost and, with fire ? (He 
would bestow upon them the influences of the Holy 
Spirit, which, like a flame of fire, should kindle pious 
affections, consume sin, and purify the heart.) 

12. What does John say was in his hand ? 



Oh. 8.] QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 17 

What would he do ? 

What would become of the chaff? 

What is here meant by fan ? (A kind of shovel used to 
turn over the threshed grain, so that the chaff might 
be blown away.) 

What do you think John meant by this figure? 

What by the garner ? 

What by unquenchable Jire t 

13. From whence did Jesus come? 
To whom and for what purpose ? 

Where had he been in Galilee? (Chap, ii, 23.) 
Why should Jesus wish to be baptized by John? 

14. What did John do and say ? 
What did he mean by this? 

15. What did Jesus say to him in answer? 
What did John then do ? 

What did Jesus mean by his answer to John? (It is 
meet that I should conform to all God's precepts, and 
own every divine institution, and to be thus introduced 
to my ministry by the appropriate rite, and the de- 
scent and testimony of the Holy Ghost.) 

16. What did Jesus do when baptized? 
What solemn event then happened ? 

What, do you suppose, is here meant by like a dove ? 

17. What was then heard ? 

What voice was this ? 

Was it an articulate voice ? (Ch. xvii, 5 ; John xii, 

28, 30; 2 Pet. i, 17.) 
How were the three persons in the blessed trinity thus 

represented in this scene ? 
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18 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 4. 



LESSON IV. 

THE TEMPTATION— COMMENCEMENT OF CHKIST'S 
PREACHING. 

Chapter iv, 1-25* 

1. Whithek was Jesus now led ? 
By whom? 

For what purpose ? 

What is meant by led tip of the Spirit f) Was inwardly 
moved by the Spirit of God, which had" descended like 
a dove and lighted upon him.) 

Where was this wilderness ? (It is supposed to have 
been a rugged mountainous district, north-east of Jeru- 
salem.) 

What is here meant by to be tempted f (To be moved or 
solicited to sin.) 

Why was Jesus thus tempted ? (Heb. ii, 18.) 

Who is meant by the devil f (1 Pet. v, 8.) 

Are you exposed to his temptations ? 

How does he tempt ? 

How may you escape from his power? (Jas. iv, 7.) 

2. How long did Jesus fast ? 
What then happened ? 

What is here meant by fasted t 
How could Jesus remain so long fasting? 
What other persons fasted the same period ? (Exod. 
xxxiv, 28 ; 1 Kings xix, 8.) 



What did he say ? 

Who is here meant by the tempter f 

In what form, do you suppose, he appeared to him? 



Ch. 4.] QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 19 

Why would it have been wrong to command the stones 
to become bread ? (It would have been using means 
which God had not appointed to relieve his hunger, 
and would thus have been a distrust of the divine 
providence.) 

Why would this advice of the devil be a temptation to 
Jesus? 

4. What answer did Jesus make to the 



tempter ? 



Where is this written ? (Deut. viii, 3.) 

What is the meaning of this answer to the tempter ? 
(Those who obey God's will, and confide in his gracious 
providence, he can support without bread, as he fed 
the Israelites in the wilderness.) 

o. Where did the devil then take him ? 
Where did he set him ? 

What is meant by the holy city ? 

WTiy was it so called? 

What is meant by a pinnacle of the temple? (A sharp 
point, probably the roof of the southern porch, one 
hundred and fifty feet high, which hung over a valley 
many hundred feet in depth.) 

6. What did the devil say to him ? 
What scripture did he repeat to him ? 

Where is this written? (Psa. xci, 11, 12.) 

How could this be a temptation to Jesus? (He might 
have urged that the sight of such a miracle would 
convince the Jews who were assembled in the temple 
of the truth of his pretensions to the Messiahship.) 

Why would not the Scripture quoted by the devil, justify 
the act he proposed ? 

Are angels ever commissioned to guard or aid us ? 

7. How did Jesus answer this temptation ? 

Where is this written ? (Deut. vi, 16.) 



20 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 4. 

What is the meaning of this scripture? (Thou shalt 
not make an unwarranted and unnecessary trial of the 
power and goodness of God.) 

8. Where did the devil now take him ? 
What did he show him ? 

What is meant by showeth him all the kingdoms of the 
world? (A figurative phrase for the land of Judea 
and the neighboring parts, that is, the whole country 
in view.) 

What is meant by and the gloi-y of them t 

9. What did he then say ? 

What did he mean by fall down and worship me f 
Were these things in the power of Satan to give ? 
When the devil tempts us do. we usually realize his prom- 
ise of good ? 

10. What did Jesus then say to him? 
What scripture did he quote ? 

Where is it written ? (Deut. vi, 13.) 
How did this answer the temptation ? 

11. What did the devil then do? 
What now happened to him ? 

Why did the devil then leave him ? 
What is meant by the angels ministered unto him? 
What may we learn from the whole description of this 
temptation ? 

12. What had Jesus heard? 
What did he do? 

How long was this after his temptation? (About a 

year.) 
How happened John to be in prison? (Luke iii, 19-20.) 
Why did Jesus go to Galilee? (To avoid the malice of 

the Jews and of Herod.) 



Ch.4.1 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 21 

13. Where did he dwell ? 
Where was Capernaum ? 

Who resided at Nazareth ? 

On what sea-coast was Capernaum ? 

What can you tell about this sea ? (Bible Scholar's 

Manual, page 80.) 
What is meant by the borders of Zabulon and Nephtha- 

lim ? (The portions of the land falling to the two 

tribes of Zebulun and Xaphtali, bordered upon the sea 

of Galilee.) 

14. The words of what prophet were thus 
fulfilled ? 

Where are they recorded? (Isa. ix, 1, 2.) 
What is meant by that it -might be fulfilled ? (It might 
be properly rendered, " So that, or thus was fulfilled.") 

15. 16. How was the country described in 
the prophecy ? 

What was promised in reference to this 
people ? 

What is meant by the way of the sea? 
What by Galilee of the Gentiles ? 
What by the people which sat in darkness t 
What by saw a great light ? 

W T hat by the region and shadoic of death ? (In the re* 
gion where spiritual darkness and death reigned.) 

17. What did Jesus begin to do ? 
What did he say ? 

Where, and in what way, do you suppose the Saviour 

preached ? 
What is meant by the kingdom of heaven is at hand ? 
How would repentance prepare them for it ? 

18. Where was Jesus, on a certain occasion, 
walking ? 



22 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 4. 

What two brothers did he see ? 
How were they engaged ? 
What was their business ? 

19. What did he say to them? 

What did lie mean by the expression, Follow me ? 
What by fishers of men? Had Jesus ever seen them be- 
fore ? (John i, 40, 42.) 

20. What did they do? 

What is implied in this verse? (That they gave up 
their trade, became his disciples, and assisted him in 
preaching the Gospel.) 

Are any tlms called now? 

In what respect are all called? 

What ought we to do ? 

21. Going from thence, whom did he see ? 
How were they engaged ? 

What did he do ? 

22. What did they do ? 

23. Where did Jesus now go ? 
How was he engaged ? 
What miracles did he work ? 

What was the synagogue? (Bib. Sch. Man., p. 145.) 

What is meant by the Gospel of the kingdom f 

What was the difference between teaching and preaching ? 

What is meant by all manner of sickness ? 

Why did Jesus heal bodily diseases? 

24. Where did his fame spread? 
Who were brought to him ? 
What did he do for them ? 

What country is meant by Syria? (The general name 
for the country lying between the Euphrates and the 
Mediterranean, and Mt. Taurus and Arabia.) 



Ch. 5.] QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 23 

What is a lunatic f 
What is the palsy ? 
What is meant by being possessed of devils f 

25. Who followed him ? 

Where was Decapolis ? (A -wild country, east of Jordan, 

so called from its containing ten cities.) 
Why, do you suppose, this people followed him ? 



LESSON V. 

SEBMON ON THE MOUNT. 
Chapter v, 1-20. 

1. When Jesus saw the multitude, what did 
he do? 

Who came to him ? 

What multitudes are referred to here ? 

By what name is this discourse called, and why ? 

Why did our Saviour sit while he was teaching ? (The 
Jewish doctors stood up when they read the Law and 
the Prophets, and sat down when they taught.) 

Who are meant by his dAsciples t 

2. What did he then do ? 

What is here meant by he opened his mouth ? 

3. Upon whom did he pronounce the first 
blessing ? 

What did he say should be theirs ? 

What is here the meaning of Messed t (Happy.) 

"What of the poor in spii-it ? 

What by theirs is the kingdom of heaven f (They share in 
all the blessings of that spiritual kingdom which is 
begun on earth and completed iu heaven.) 



24 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 5. 

4. What blessing is pronounced upon 
those that mourn ? 

What kind of mourning is referred to here ? 
What is meant by they shall be comforted? 

5. What did our Lord say of the meek ? 

Who are meant by the meek P 

What by, they shall inherit the earth ? (Whatever true 

happiness is to be enjoyed on earth is theirs.) 
How does a meek spirit tend to secure this ? 

(3. Upon whom is the next blessing pro- 
nounced ? 
What is promised to such ? 

What is meant by hungering and thirsting after righteous- 
ness? (Earnestly desiring.) 
What lj, they shall be filled f (Shall be satisfied.) 

7. What blessing is pronounced upon the 
merciful ? 

Who are meant by the merciful ? 
What by, shall obtain mercy? 

Does this mean that if one is forgiving in his disposition, 
that he will on this account have all his sins forgiven ? 

8. What blessing is pronounced upon the 
pure in heart ? 

Who is meant by the pure in heart ? 

W T hat by, they shall see God ? (To see, is a Jewish phrase, 

meaning to enjoy, to possess.) 
How does purity of heart secure this blessing ? 

9. What blessing is pronounced upon the 
peace-makers ? 

Who are meant by peace-makers ? 

What by, shall be called the children of God ? 



Ch. 5.] QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 25 

10. Who are next pronounced blessed ? 
Why are they blessed ? 

What is the meaning of persecuted f 

What of, for righteousness* sake? 

Why is this cause of persecution specified ? 

Can you think of any instances of such persecution ? 

How could these persecuted persons be said to be blessed ? 

What is meant by theirs is the king lorn of heaven t 

11. When did he say his disciples were 
blessed ? 

What is the meaning of revile t 

How could persons be said to be blessed under these cir- 
cumstances '? 
What is meant by the term falsely $ 
~V\ hat by, for my sake f 

12. How should they feel when thus perse- 
cuted? 

For what reason ? 

Who had experienced these persecutions 
before them ? 

"What is meant by, great is your reward in heaven ? 

Can you mention any of the prophets that were perse- 
cuted? 

How would these considerations make them joyful in 
persecutions ? 

Have you read of any instances in which Christians did 
rejoice amid cruel and severe persecutions ? 

13. What did he say his disciples were ? 
What did he say of the salt ? 

In what sense were they the salt of the earth ? 
What is meant by the salt losing its savor f 
How does this apply to individuals '? 



26 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les, 5. 

How may you become as the salt of the earth ? 

What is referred to here by being trodden under foot of 
men ? (The salt used in Palestine, was rock salt, or a 
bituminous salt from the Dead Sea, which after it had 
lost its virtue was used for the path or street.) 

14. What besides did he say they were to 
the world? 

What could not be hid ? 

How were they the light of the world t 
What is the duty then of every Christian ? 
How are they like a city set upon a hill ? 
What should this teach us ? 

15. What do not men do with a candle? 
Where do they place it ? 

What is the result ? 

What is meant by candle here ? (Lamp, various forms of 
which, for the burning of olive oil, were used by the 
Jews.) 

What is the meaning of the verse ? 

16. What should be done with their light? 
What would be the consequence? 

What is implied in letting their light shine ? 

What by good works ? 

What by glorify your Father ? 

How would their letting their light shine glorify God ? 

Why is God said to be in heaven ? 

17. What had not Christ come to do? 
For what purpose had he come ? 

What is meant by the law and the prophets ? (A common 
phrase for the Old Testament Scriptures — the expres- 
sion means, " I have not come to destroy the religious 
system revealed in the books of the Old Testament.) 



Ch. 5.] QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 27 

What by fulfill ? (To accomplish, all that was designed 

and all that was foretold by them.) 
How did our Lord do this ? 

18. What does he say of the law? 

What is meant by jot or tittle ? 

What part of the law has been fulfilled ? 

What portion still remains binding? 

19. What did he say in reference to break- 
ing the commandments ? 

What, in reference to keeping and teaching 
them ? 

Is there any difference in the importance of the com- 
mandments of God? 

Who taught that there was? (The Scribes and Phari- 
sees.) 

What is here meant by least and great in the kingdom of 
heaven ? 

Is it enough for us to teach others the right way ? 

Is it a privilege and an honor to be permitted to teach the 
commandments of God. 

What may we learn of the responsibility of those that 
teach false doctrines and practices ? 

20. What did he say of their righteous- 
ness ? 

What is meant by righteousness ? 

In what did the righteousness of the Scribes and Phari- 
sees consist ? 

How must ours exceed it ? 

What is here meant by enter into the kingdom of heaven ? 

What important truths have you learned from this 
lesson ? 



28 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 6. 



LESSON VI. 

CONTINUATION OF SERMON ON THE MOUNT. 
Chapter v, 21-48. 

21. What does Jesus say they had heard? 
Of what should one be in danger who broke 

this law ? 

Where is this saying recorded ? (Exod. xx, 13.) 
"What is meant by the judgment ? (A court of justice 
among the Jews, composed of twenty-three of the 
elders.) 
What is meant by the expression in danger of the judg- 
ment ? (Shall be liable to it, and be tried and pun- 
ished by it.) 

22. How did Christ expound this law ? 
What should happen to him who should say 

to his brother, Eaca ? 
What to him who should say, Thou fool ? 

Why should being angry without a cause be so severely 

punished ? 
Is there any similarity between this and murder ? 
Who is meant by brother here ? 
What is the meaning of Baca ? (Thou vain and empty 

fellow — an expression of scorn and contempt.) 
Against what does our Lord caution us in this ? (Against 

angry and improper words.) 
What is meant by the council ? (The sanhedrim, the 

supreme court of the Jews, consisting of seventy-two 

judges.) 
What is the force of the term Thou fool ? (A wretch or 

miscreant.) 
What is meant by shall be in danger of hell-jire ? 



Ch. oj QUESTIONS OX MATTHEW. 29 

May not these terms be sometimes properly applied? 

(Matt, xxiii, 19.) 
What ought we to learn from these solemn words of our 

Lord? 

23, 24. What should they consider when 

they brought a gift to the altar ? 
What should be first done ? 
What then might be attended to? 

What is meant by, bringing thy gift before the altar ? 

What by being- reconciled to thy brother ? 

What is the meaning of the whole passage ? (That we 
cannot offer acceptable worship to God, while cherish- 
ing unkind or hostile feelings toward our fellow 
man.) 

2-3. How should an adversary be treated ? 
What reasons are given ? 

Who is meant by an adversary ? (An opponent at a suit 
in law — one going to law with another.) 

What is meant by, agree with thine adversary ? 

What by, ichile thou art in the icay icith him ? 

What is the teaching of the verse ? (That it is better to 
yield something of our rights, than to incur the evils 
and dangers of contending for them.) 

26. If they did not do thus, what would be 
the result ? 

27. What other commandment does Jesus 
refer to ? 

Which commandment is this ? 

28. How does Jesus expound it ? 

29. What should be done if the right eye 
offend ? 

What reason is given for this ? 



30 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 6. 

What is the meaning here of offend ? (Ensnare thee.) 
What is the meaning of the verse ? (The Jews express- 
ed the passions of the mind, by calling them after the 
names of the members of the body — the figure implies, 
that sinful passions must be mortified and subdued, 
however painful the conflict may be.) 

30. How is the same truth again ex- 
pressed ? 

31. What had been said in reference to a 
wife ? 

32. How did Jesus explain this law ? 

33. What other saying had been handed 
down from old time ? 

What commandment is referred to in this ? (Exod. xx, 7.) 

What is meant by, forswear thyself? 

What by, perform unto the Lord thine oaths ? 

What had the Jewish doctors taught about swearing? 
(That perjury or a false judicial oath was the only 
breach of the third commandment, and they therefore 
used voluntary oaths in common conversation.) 

34. How did Jesus explain the law ? 
Why not by heaven ? 

What is here meant by swear ? 
What by heaven ? 
What by, it is God's throne ? 

Does this forbid oaths on solemn and judicial occasions ? 
(Matt, xxxiii, 16, 18, 22 ; Rom. i, 9.) 

35. What other oaths are forbidden ? 
What reasons are given ? 

What is meant by, it is his footstool ? 
What by, it is the city of the great King ? 

36. What further is said in reference to 
swearing ? 



Ch. 5.J QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 31 

What is the meaning of this ? 

What may we learn from these words of our Lord in 
reference to the use of oaths '? 

37. What should their communication be ? 
"What reason is given for this ? 

What i3 meant by communication ? 

What by, yea, yea, and nay, nay ? (In your conversation 

avoid oaths, and when you affirm a thing, say simply 

yes, and when you deny, no.) 
What by, more than this cometh of evil ? (Of the evil 

one, that is, from the suggestion of the devil.) 

38. "What further had they heard ? 

Where is this written ? (Exod. xxi, 24 ; Deut. xix, 21.) 
What was the object of this law? (To prescribe to 

judges the manner of punishing offenders.) 
What perversion of this law had the Scribes and Phari- 
sees permitted '? (They explained it as permitting 
private revenge.) 

30. How did the Saviour explain it ? 
How should they treat one that injured 
them ? 

What is meant by, resist not evil ? 

What is the sense of the last clause of the verse ? (It 
is a proverbial expression, teaching a meek submission 
to small injuries and affronts. It cannot be under- 
stood literally, for our Lord and St. Paul, when they 
were smitten unlawfully, expostulated with the person 
committing the injury. John xviii, 22 ; Acts 
xxxiii, 2.) 

40. How does our Lord further illustrate 
the subject? 

What was the coat ? (The under garment or tunic.) 
What the cloak ? (The outer garment, thrown oyer the 
shoulders upon going out.) 



32 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 6, 

What is the meaning of the verse ? (We should ordi- 
narily make a sacrifice even of our rights rather than 
go to the law for redress.) 

41. What other illustration does he give ? 

To what custom is allusion had here ? (In the East in- 
telligence was transmitted hy couriers, who had the 
power to compel the service of horse or man when on 
public business.) 

What is the teaching of the verse ? (Rather yield to an 
unreasonable person than quarrel with him.) 

42. How should we treat our fellow men ? 

Does this mean that we should give or lend indiscrimi- 
nately to every one that asks us ? 
What is the meaning of the verse ? 

43. What besides had they heard ? 

Was there any ground in the Old Testament to this senti- 
ment ? 

44. How did he explain their duty in this 
regard ? 

In what sense are we to love our enemies ? 
How only shall we be enabled to fulfill this command ? 
What will be the effect upon our enemies, ordinarily, by 
such a course? 

45. What would they thus become ? 

How does our heavenly Father exhibit his 
forbearance ? 

What is meant by, he children of your Father, dec. ? 
Why does our heavenly Father thus treat the just and 
unjust alike, in many respects, in the present life ? 

46. What question does he ask them ? 
Who did this ? 



Ch. 6. J QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 33 

Who were the publicans ? (Tax gatherers for the Roman 
government, chosen often from the lowest of the peo* 
pie, and always despised.) 

47. How further does he illustrate this? 

What is here meant by salute ? 

What was the Jewish custom in this respect ? (They 
would not bestow a salutation on a Gentile or a Sa- 
maritan, but only on their brethren.) 

48. What should they aim to be ? 
What should be their standard ? 

What is the meaning of perfect here ? 
In what respects were they to be perfect ? 



LESSOX VII. 

SERMON ON THE MOUNT CONTINUED. 
Chapter vi ? 1-18. 

1. What direction does our Lord give in 
reference to alms ? 

Why should this be done ? 

What is meant by alms ? 

What is the meaning of the expression, to be seen of them ? 

What by, ye have no reward ? 

What is the teaching of the Terse? (That we should 
not perform any religious act to gain the applause of 
men, but should do it quietly, shunning observation.) 

2. What especially should they not do ? 
Why did the hypocrites do this ? 
What should they receive? 

3 



34 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW [Les. 7. 

What is meant by sounding a trumpet ? (A proverbial 
expression to signify publicity and ostentation.) 

What is a hypocrite ? 

What is meant by, that they may have glory of men ? 

What by, they have their reward? (They gain the ap- 
plause of men, which is all they seek for ; it will be 
their only reward, as they can expect none from God.) 

3. How should they bestow alms ? 

What is the meaning of this ? (A proverbial expression, 
signifying secresy, an avoidance of all unnecessary 
publicity.) 

Does this forbid us ever to give alms in public ? (Ch. 
v, 16.) 

How can the two precepts be reconciled together ? 

4. How should alms be performed ? 
What would be the result? 

When will this reward be given openly ? (Luke xiv, 14.) 

5. What direction is given in reference to 
prayer ? 

How do they love to pray ? 
What did Jesus say of them ? 

Does this precept forbid public prayer ? 

What is its meaning ? (That our private and personal 
prayers are not to be offered so as to attract public 
notice, but are to be made in secret, when alone with 
our heavenly Father.) 

6. How should prayer be offered ? 

What would be the result of such prayer ? 

What is meant by, thy closet ? 

Does this precept forbid the meeting of Christians to 

pray together ? 
What peculiar advantages arise from secret prayer ? 
What is here meant by, shall reward thee openly ? 



Ch.6.] QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 35 

7. What should they not use when they 
prayed ? 

Why do the heathen do thus? 

What is meant by, vain repetitions ? 

Who are meant by, the heathen ? 

How are they accustomed to address their gods ? (1 Kings 

xviii, 26.) 
What, do you think, is the meaning of the verse ? 

8. Why should not they do like the hea- 



How does a knowledge of this truth exhibit the folly of 

vain repetitions ? 
What comfort may be derived from the fact that our 

heavenly Father knoweth these things ? 

9. How does he then teach them to pray? 

Does this mean that they should always use these words? 

"What is the meaning of after this manner ? 

What is this prayer usually called ? 

In what sense is God our Father ? 

What is the meaning of hallowed! 

How may we hallow God's name ? 

10. How should we pray for the kingdom 
and the will of God ? 

What is meant by, thy kingdom come? 

What by, thy icill be done ? 

How is this done in heaven? 

Where may we learn what is God's will ? 

How may we assist in fulfilling this prayer ? 

11. What are we to pray for daily? 

What is here meant by daily bread? 
In what sense does it come from God ? 

12. How are we to seek forgiveness ? 

What is here meant by debts ? 



36 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les.7. 

Who by debtors ? 

What is it to forgive our debtors ? 

What is the import of the petition ? 

13. How should we pray in reference to 
temptation ? 

From what seek deliverance ? 
How does the prayer close ? 

What is meant by temptation ? 

What is the import of the words lead its not into it ? 
(Hebrew expression for, suffer us not to be led into 
temptation.) 

Will this prayer defend ns if we needlessly expose our- 
selves to temptation ? 

How may we be aided by the prayer ? 

What is meant by evil ? (Either the evil one, or any 
form of evil or calamity.) 

What is meant by, thine is the kingdom ? 

What by, the power and the glory ? 

What by, Amen ? 

14. What further does our Lord say in 
reference to the forgiveness of injuries? 

Does this verse teach that all that is necessary to secure 
the forgiveness of our sins is a forgiving disposition ? 

15. What does he say in reference to an 
unforgiving spirit ? 

What should we learn from this ? 

16. What instruction does he give in refer- 
ence to fasting ? 

How did they conduct themselves? 
What did they receive ? 

What is it to fast * 



Ch. 6.] QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 87 

What is meant by, they disfigure their faces ? (It was cus- 
tomary among the Jews to put ashes upon their heads 
during the public fasts, which of course disfigured or 
blackened their faces, 1 Kings xx, 38.) 

What is signified by, appear unto men to fast ? 

What is implied by reward ? 

17. How should they conduct themselves ift 
a fast? 

To what custom is allusion made in the expression, anoint 
thine head ? (It was the custom of the Jews to wash 
at every meal, and when practicable, to anoint the head 
and other parts of the body with olive oil.) 

What then is the meaning of the direction ? (Make no 
unusual display when you fast, to attract public atten- 
tion, but dress and conduct yourself as at other times.) 

18. To whom should they appear to fast? 
What profit should this be to them ? 

What is meant by, thy Father which is in secret ? 

What is the object of fasting ? 

Is it profitable to have occasions of fasting ? 

What seems to be the leading idea in these instructions 
of our Lord ? (That our heavenly Father looks at the 
heart, in all these matters, and judges our motives as 
well as our external acts.) 



LESSON via 

SERMON ON THE MOUNT CONTINUED. 
Chapter vi 9 19-34. 

19. Where does our Lord say we should not 
lay up our treasure ? 



88 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 8. 

Why not there ? 

What is here meant by treasure ? 

What by laying up treasures on earth ? 

Does this mean that we should not seek to accumulate 
property for any purpose ? 

What is a moth ? 

What is here meant by rust ? 

What was the character of the accumulations of wealthy 
people of the East? (It was not merely silver and 
gold, but a prodigious number of sumptuous and mag- 
nificent garments. These were preserved with great 
difficulty, as they were exposed to insects and vermin.) 

What is the meaning of the verse ? (Our Lord con- 
demns the pursuit of wealth and the habit of avarice, 
and enjoins upon his disciples not to be so solicitous 
for the good things of this world, as for the substantial 
happiness of the world to come.) 

20. Where should they lay up their trea- 
sure? 

Why there ? 

To what is reference had in the expression, where thieves 
do not break through nor steal ? (The houses in the 
villages of Judea were built of mud or clay, and it 
was no uncommon thing for thieves to dig through the 
wall and rob a dwelling.) 

What may we learn from this in reference to heavenly 
possessions ? 

21. What principle does our Lord lay down 
in reference to our treasures ? 

What is the meaning of this ? ? 

How can we know by this text whether we love God, and 
really desire to go to heaven ? 

22. What is the light of the body ? 
When will the body be full of light ? 

What is meant by the eye being single ? (Having no bad 
humors or film.) 



Ch. 6.] QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 39 

What by, thy whole body shall be full of light ? 
What is the spiritual meaning of the verse ? 

23. What would be the effect if the eye 
were evil ? 

What reflection does our Lord then draw 
from what he has just said ? 

What is here meant by evil ? (Diseased.) 

What by the closing reflection ? (As the whole body is 
in darkness if the light of the eye be extinguished, so, 
if the perception of divine truth is lost, the whole soul 
is involved in the deepest spiritual ignorance and 
danger.) 

24. What does he say is impossible? 
How will he regard them ? 

What, therefore, could they not do ? 

What is meant by, serve two masters ? 

What by, hold to the one and despise the other 1 

What by, mammon ? 

How o!o men serve nianimon ? 

Why cannot men serve God and mammon ? 

How can we know whom we serve ? 

25. Of what should they not take thought? 
What question does Jesus ask them ? 

What is meant by, take no thought ? 

Does this mean that we should make no provision for 
the future? 

What is the meaning of the question our Lord asks ? (If 
life and the body be more valuable than meat and rai- 
ment, we may be assured that He who gave us the 
former will not withhold the latter from us.) 

What may we learn from this? 

26. To what did he direct their attention ? 
What did he say of them ? 

What question does he then ask? 



40 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 8. 

How does God feed the fowls of the air ? 

In what respects are we better than the fowls ? 

What is implied in the question ? 

27. What question does our Lord then ask ? 

What is a cubit ? (About twenty inches.) 
What is meant by talcing thought ? 
What is implied in the question ? 

28, 29. What question did he ask in refer- 
ence to raiment ? 

What does he say of the lilies ? 
What of Solomon ? 

What is meant by, they toil not, neither do they spin ? 

In what respect did they exceed Solomon ? 

What does our Lord intend to teach them by this ? 

30. How does our Lord apply these illus- 
trations ? 

What is here meant by being* cast in the oven ? (From 
the scarcity of wood the ovens in the East were heated 
with withered stalks of herbs and flowers, which if 
cut one clay, in that hot climate would be fit for fuel 
the next.) 

What is the force of our Lord's question ? 

What is meant by the expression, ye of little faith ? 

81. What questions should they not ask? 
32. What reason does he give for this ? 
What does our heavenly Father know ? 

Who are meant by the Gentiles ? (Heathen, pagan na- 
tions.) 

Why do the Gentiles seek for these things ? (Because, 
being strangers to the promises and providences of 
God, they can depend only upon their own exertions.) 

Why should not the disciples of Christ be thus anxious ? 

How should God's knowledge of our wants assure us? 



Ch. 7.] QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 41 

33. What should be first sought ? 
What promise is there made ? 

What is the meaning of seek ife first ? 

What is meant by, the kingdom of God ? 

What by his, righteousness f (Personal and practical holi- 
ness.) 

What is signified by, all these things ? 

What by, shall be added unto you '? 

What may we learn from this, in reference to the age 
■when religion should be sought ? 

How are we to seek ? 

34. What is the concluding admonition ? 
Why should we not do this ? 

What is the closing remark of the chapter ? 

What is the meaning- of, take no thought for the morrow? 

What is meant by, the morrow shall take thought for the things 
of itself/ (Shall, through the providence of God, bring 
its necessary supplies and provisions to those who be- 
fore all things seek the kingdom of God.) 

What by, sufficient nnto the day is the evil thereof? (Suffi- 
cient to the present time are the present troubles of 
life, without anticipating future ones.) 



LESSON IX. 

SERMON UPON THE MOUNT CONCLUDED. 
Chapter vii, 1-29, 

1. What does our Lord say in reference to 
judging? 



42 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 9. 

What is here the meaning of judge ? (Do not exercise 

severe and uncharitable judgment or opinion toward 

your neighbor.) 
Has this command reference to the public administration 

of justice ? 
What is the meaning of the expression, that ye be not 

judged ? 

2. What does the Saviour say of our judg- 
ments ? 

What about our measure ? 

What is the meaning of the first clause of the verse ? 

What of, with what measure ye mete 1 

What then is the teaching of these verses ? (As you are 
candid or severe in your judgments and expressed 
opinions of others, so will you be treated by them.) 

3. What question does our Lord now ask ? 

What is implied in the question, why beholdest thou? 
(Why dost thou observe earnestly, and with self-com- 
placency.) 

What is here meant by mote, and beam ? (Smaller and 
greater faults.) 

What then is the meaning of the verse ? 

4. How does our Lord further illustrate 
this? 

How can you explain the teaching of the verse ? 

5. What should first be done ? 
What then could be accomplished ? 

Why does he call such a person a hypocrite ? 

What is meant by, cast out the beam out of thine own eye ? 

What by, then thou shalt see clearly ? 

6. What should not be done with that which 
is holy ? 

What reason is given for this? 



Gh. 7.1 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 43 

What is here meant by. that tcTiichis holy, and by pearls ? 

(The doctrines of religion.) 
What by, dogs and swine ? (Profane and violent men.) 
What by, trample them under their feet ? (Despise and 

ridicule them.) 
What by, turn again and rend you ? (Turn upon you with 

violence.) 
What then is the meaning of the verse ? 

7. What commands and promises did our 
Lord then pronounce ? 

What is here the meaning of ash ? 

Will everything we ask for be given ? 

What is here meant by seek ? 

What by knock ? 

What by, it shall be opened ? 

What may we learn from the verse ? 

8. What further in confirmation of this 
does he say ? 

Under what circumstances is this true ? 

9 10. How does our Lord proceed to illus- 
trate this? 

What is the meaning of these verses ? 

11. How does the Lord apply this illustra- 
tion ? 

What is meant by being evil ? 

What is the force of the argument? 

What are meant by good things ? (Luke xi, 13.) 

12. What rule of conduct does he now lay 
down ? 

What does he say of this rule ? 

What is this sometimes called? 
Why the golden rule ? 



44 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 9. 

Can you give the meaning of it in your own language ? 

What is meant by, this is the law and the prophets ? (This 

is the substance of all the teachings of the Bible.) 

13. Into what does he now counsel them to 
enter? 

What does he say of the gate that leadeth 
to destruction ? 

To what is allusion had in this verse? (To an Eastern 
custom at marriage-feasts, of having a gate designedly 
made narrow, that none but the properly invited guests 
might enter, and intruders be more easily excluded.) 

What is meant here by the strait gate ? 

Why should the kingdom of God or true religion be thus 
represented ? 

What is here meant by destruction? 

Why is this road represented as broad ? 

Who may be said to be in it ? 

14. What further is said of the gate and 
the way of life ? 

What is here meant by, narrow is the way ? 

What by, which leadeth unto life ? 

What by, few there be that find it ? 

What ought we to learn from this solemn verse? 

15. Of whom should they beware ? 
What was their appearance ? 
What was their character? 

Who are here meant by false prophets ? (Teachers of 

erroneous doctrines.) 
What by their coming in sheep' 's clothing? 
What by their being inwardly ravening wolves ? 

16. How should they be known? 
What question does he ask ? 

What is meant by, their fruits t 
What is implied in the question ? 



Ch. 7. j QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 45 

17. How does our Lord further illustrate 
this truth ? 

What is the meaning of the verse ? 

18. What cannot a good tree bring forth ? 
What is said of a corrupt tree ? 

What is the meaning of this ? 

19. What is done with a worthless tree? 

What is the spiritual meaning of this ? 

20. How does our Lord close this illustra- 
tion? 

What may we learn from the preceding verses ? 

21. Who does our Lord say should not enter 
the kingdom of heaven ? 

Who only would be able to enter ? 

Who are meant by those who say, Lord, lord ? 
What is here meant by, the kingdom of heaven ? 
What is it to do the will of God ? 

Has any text been given in this lesson by which we may 
know that we do the will of God '? 

22. What would many hereafter say ? 

What is meant by, in that day ? 

What by, prophesied in thy name ? (To teach or preach.) 

What by, have cast out devils ? 

What by, have done many wonderful works ? 

23. What would the Saviour profess to 
them? 

What would he say to them ? 

What is meant by, profess unto them ? 
What by, never knew you ? 



46 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 9. 

What by, depart from me ? 

What ought we to learn from these solemn words ? 

24. To whom did he liken one that heard 
and obeyed his sayings ? 

25. What happened to him ? 

What is the meaning of these verses ? 

To what is allusion had in them? (When the rain falls 
in Judea and the adjoining countries, it often pours 
down in terrible torrents, sweeping away all lightly 
built dwellings.) 

What may we learn from the verse ? 

Who may be said to build their houses upon a rock ? 

26. What does he say of one that heareth 
but does not obey ? 

27. What were the consequences? 

What solemn truth may we draw from this ? 

28. How were the people affected by this 
sermon ? 

What is meant by, his doctrine ? 

29. Why were they astonished ? 

What is meant by, as one having authority ? 

What by, not as the scribes ? (They taught only tradi- 
tions received from their forefathers.) 

Can you mention the topics noticed in our Lord's sermon 
upon the mount ? 

What opinion have you formed of the sermon ? 



Ch. 8.] QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 47 



LESSON X. 

HEALING THE LEPER, AND THE CENTURION'S 
SERVANT. 

Chapter viii, 1-17. 

1. What happened when our Lord came 
down from the mountain ? 

What is here meant by, follow him ? 

2. Who came to him ? 
What did he do ? 
What did he say ? 

What is a leper? (See Bible Scholar's Manual, p. 164.) 
W T hat is meant by, worshiped him ? 
What by, thou canst make vie clean ? 

3. What did Jesus do ? 
What followed ? 

By what authority could Jesus say, / ivill, he thou clean ? 
What does this miracle prove as to the character of Jesus 
Christ? 

4. What directions does our Lord give the 
healed man ? 

What should he first do ? 
What offering should he make ? 

Why did our Lord desire that he should tell no man ? 
(Some suppose the injunction meant, lose no time by 
the way in telling of thy cure, but go at once to the 
priest. Others suppose, he wished not to have it spread 
abroad at that time, lest the excited people might arise 
at once to proclaim him king, or excite the Jewish 
rulers against him.) 



48 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Leg. 10. 

Why should he go to the priest ? (The leper was for- 
bidden by the law of Moses to mingle with the com- 
munity, until he had obtained the testimony of the 
priest that he was cured.) 
What gift had Moses commanded? (Lev. xiv, 10.) 
What is meant by, for a testimony unto them ? (An evi- 
dence that he was a Messiah, as he had wrought an 
amazing miracle.) 

5. Into what city did he enter ? 
Who came to him ? 

Where was Capernaum? 

What was a centurion? (A Roman officer commanding 

about one hundred men.) 
What is meant by beseeching him ? 

6. What did he say ? 

What is the £>a% t 

What is meant by, grievously tormented ? 

7. What did Jesus say to him ? 

What may we learn from Christ's readiness to answer his 
request ? 

8. What did he answer? 
What did he desire him to do ? 

How had the centurion probably learned about our Lord ? 
What does he exhibit in his answer? (Sincere humility 
and strong faith.) 

9. What does he say of himself? 

What is meant by a man under authority t 

How did this remark apply to what he had formerly said ? 
(If I, who am an inferior officer, am thus implicitly 
obeyed, thou who art endowed with such power, need- 
est only to speak and my servant will be healed.) 

10. How did this answer affect our Lord ? 
What did he say ? 



Ch. 8.] QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 49 

What is the meaning of marveled? 
Why did he marvel at this ? 

What is here meant by faith? (Confidence in the Sa- 
viour's power.) 
What by, Israel f 

11. What further did he sslj to them? 

What is here meant by, the east and west ? 

What by, sit down with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob ? 

(Alluding to a marriage feast.) 
What by, the kingdom of heaven ? 

12. What does he say of the children of 
the kingdom ? 

What of their situation when thus east 
out ? 

Who are meant by, children of the kingdom? (The Jews. 

so called because they had long been God's peculiar 

people, and the spiritual kingdom through Christ was 

first offered to them.) 
What is here meant by, outer darkness ? 
What is signified by the last clause ? 
Can we learn anything in reference to those that fail to 

improve their privileges from this solemn verse? 

13. What did Jesus say to the centurion ? 
What then occurred? 

What is meant by, the self-same hour? 

14. Into whose house did Jesus now come? 
Who was sick ? 

What Peter was this ? (John i, 44. He was of Beth- 
saida, and must have removed to Capernaum, after he 
was called to be an apostle by our Lord.) 

What may we learn from the fact of Peter's being mar- 
ried, in reference to the Romish Church doctrine of 
the celibacy of ministers? 



50 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 11. 

15. What did Jesus do to her? 
What occurred upon this ? 
What did she then do ? 

Who alone had power to work such a miracle ? 
What then must we think of Christ ? 
What is meant by, ministered unto them ? 

16. Who were brought to him at even? 
What did he do for them ? 

Why were these brought in the evening? 
What is meant by, possessed with devils t 
What by, cast out the spirits with his word? 

17. What was then fulfilled? 

Where is this written ? (Isa. liii, 4.) 

In what sense did he take our infirmities and bare our 



What is meant by the expression, that it might be fulfilled? 
(Equivalent to, then was fulfilled.) 



LESSON XL 

CHRIST CALMS THE SEA, AND CASTS OUT DEVILS. 
Chapter viii, 18-34* 

18. What did Jesus behold about him? 
What commandment did he give ? 

What had probably drawn these multitudes around him ? 
Where was he at this time ? (Verse 5.) 
What is meant by, gave commandment ? 
What by, the other side ? (Of the Sea of Galilee, into the 
country of the Gergesenes.) 



Ch. 8.] QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 51 

19. Who came to him ? 
What did he say to him ? 

What was implied in his remark to our Lord ? 

20. How did Jesus answer him ? 

How, should you think, Jesus regarded the address of 
the Scribe ? (He considered his proposal prompted by 
worldly views. The Scribe probably expected some 
temporal advantage.) 

What is the meaning of this answer of our Lord *? 

Who is meant by, the Son of llan? 

Why does he thus call himself? 

Whose Son is he also called, and why ? 

What lesson may we learn from the fact that Jesus had 
not ichere to lay his head? 

21. What did another disciple say to him? 

"What is meant by the expression, suffer rn.ef.rst f 

22. What answer did Jesus give him ? 

What is the meaning of this answer ? (Let no worldly 
consideration hinder you; let the spiritually dead, 
those indifferent to their salvation, bury the dead, and 
attend to temporal duties.) 

When should we attend to the commands of God ? 

Should any earthly friend or consideration be allowed to 
hinder us ? 

23. What did he now do ? 
Who accompanied him ? 

24. What then arose ? 
How severe was it ? 

Where was Jesus at this time ? 

To what kind of storms is the Sea of Galilee subject ? 

(To terrible tornadoes of wind.) 
What is meant by, the ship was covered with the waves ? 

25. To whom did the disciples go ? 



S2 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 11. 

What did they do and say ? 

To whom may we always go in trouble ? 
Is he ever now asleep in our hours of peril ? 
Who must they have esteemed him to be, judging from 
their prayer ? 

26. What did he say to them ? 
What did he then do ? 

What was the result ? 

What is meant by the expression, ye of little faith? 
What by, he rebuked the winds of the sea ? 
Who only has the right and the power to do this ? 
What is meant by, a great calm? 

27. How were those on board affected ? 
What did they say ? 

What is the meaning of the expression, what manner of 

inan is this ? 
Do you notice any difference between this miracle and 

the miracle recorded in the Old Testament ? 

28. Into what country did they come ? 
Who met him ? 

Where had they been ? 
What is said of them ? 

Where was the country of the Gergesenes ? (It was the 
country on the eastern side of the sea. It is called in 
Mark v, 1, the country of the Gadarenes, and these 
two names were given to it because it was contiguous 
to or between the two cities of Gergesa and Gadara.) 

What is meant by, possessed ivith devils ? 

How and where were tombs anciently constructed ? (They 
were usually in desert places, distant from towns, and 
were often made in the sides of mountains. Remains 
of ancient tombs, hewn in the rock, are found to this 
day along the shore of the Sea of Galilee.) 

What is meant by, so that no man might pass that way? 



Ch. 8.] QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 53 

29. What did they say as they met him ? 

What is meant by, tchat have we to do icith thee ? 

What by, before the time? (Before the appointed time 

when the wicked shall receive their final punishment.) 
Did these devils then believe in a day of judgment ? 
If there had only been sick persons, would they have 

recognized our Lord, without having seen him before ? 
What evidence have we of a personal devil ? 

30. What was a good way off from them ? 

31. What did the devil request ? 

32. What did Jesus say to them ? 
What did they then do'? 

What followed? 

Why was this destruction permitted ? (If the owners 
were Jews, they kept them contrary to their own law, 
swine being declared to be unclean ; if they were 
heathens, this being within the Jewish territory, the 
keeping of swine was in contempt of the Jewish reli- 
gion.) 

33. What did those that kept them do ? 
What report did they circulate? 

34. What did the city do ? 
What did they request of him ? 

What is here meant by the whole city t 

Why do you think they wished him to leave ? 

Who now desire Christ to depart from them ? 

What must be the effect of Christ's leaving us? 

What advantage will it be to us to have him near us ? 



54 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW [Les. 12. 



LESSON XII. 

CURING OF THE PALSY — CALLING OF MATTHEW. 
Chapter ix 9 1-17. 

1. Into what did he now enter ? 
"Whither did he go? 

What kind of vessel is referred to under the title of ship f 

(Nothing more than a sail-boat.) 
What is meant by, passed over t 
What by, came to his own city t 

2. Who was brought to him ? 
What did Jesus see ? 

What did he say to the sick of the palsy ? 

How did the friends of this man exhibit their faith ? 
What service can we perform for our impenitent friends ? 
In what respects is their situation similar to that of the 

man with the palsy ? 
Why did our Saviour say to him, Be of good cheer ? 
Who only has power to declare the forgiveness of sins ? 

3. What did certain Scribes say ? 

What is meant by, said within themselves f 

What by, this man blasphemeth ? 

Why did they think Jesus guilty of blasphemy. (Be- 
cause he assumed the power to forgive sin, which God 
alone can do.) 

4. What did Jesus know ? 
What questious did he ask them ? 

How could he know their thoughts ? 
What is meant by, wherefore think ye evil ? 

5. What further question did he ask them ? 



Ch. 9.] QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 55 

What is the meaning of this inquiry ? (Which will be 
the greater exhibition of divine power, as both of 
them require the authority of God.) 

6. For what purpose was the miracle to be 
wrought ? 

"Whom did he then address ? 
What did he say ? 

How does this miracle prove that Christ had power to 

forgive sins ? 
Who then must he be ? 

7. What did the man then do ? 

8. How were the multitudes affected ? 
What did they do ? 

Why did they glorify him ? 

9. Whom did Jesus meet as he passed 
forth? 

Where was he at the time ? 
What did he say to him ? 
What did Matthew do ? 

What is meant by, the receipt of custom t (As it is stated 
in Mark, that his office was by the sea-side, it is infer- 
red that it was the custom-house of Capernaum, and 
that Matthew was the collector of taxes for the Ro- 
mans, from the boatmen and traders on the Sea of 
Galilee.) 

W T hat was the import of the command, follow me ? 

What may we learn from his prompt obedience ? 

10. What occurred as he sat at meat ? 

Who are meant by, publicans and sinners? (Publicans were 
Roman tax-gatherers, and were much despised by the 
Jews ; and sinners was the Jewish name for the hea- 
then.) 

Why, do you think, these publicans and sinners came to 
him? 



56 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Lea. 12. 

11. Who observed this ? 

What did they say to his disciples? 

12. When Jesus heard that, what did he 
say? 

What is the meaning of this? (You need not wonder at 
my intercourse with men whom you deem sinners, be- 
cause I am come to save men's souls, and the poor 
publicans and sinners have the greatest need of me, 
and will more readily accept my doctrine, than those 
who are whole in their own estimation.) 

13. What did he command them to do? 
What did he say of the purpose for which 

he had come ? 

What is meant by, / will have mercy and not sacrifice? 
(God is far better pleased with the exercise of kind- 
ness and good-will between man and man, than hj the 
strictest observance of mere rites and forms.) 

What is meant by, / am not come to call tfe righteous ? 

14. Who now came to him? 

What did they ask ? 

What John is referred to here ? 

What was the meaning of this question, which they ask? 

15. What question did Jesus ask them? 
What did he say would come ? 

What is implied in the question of our Lord ? (It would 
be unreasonable for the companions of a bridegroom to 
fast, during the days allotted for his nuptials, which 
were usually spent in festivity ; but if any calamity 
tore him from them, their joy would be turned into 
mourning and their feasting into fasting. In like 
manner, it would be improper for his disciples to fast 
while they had the comfort of his presence ; but he 
would soon be taken away from them, and then they 
would meet with hardships and trials, which would 
render fasting' seasonable.) 



Ch. 9.] QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 57 

16. What further does our Lord say in il- 
lustration of this ? 

What is meant by this ? (New cloth means unfulled 
cloth, which would shrink upon being wet, and thus 
tear away from the surrounding parts and make the 
rent worse than before.) 

17. How is the same thought expressed in 



What is the meaning of this ? (Bottles were made of 
leather, or the skins of animals, and when old and rigid, 
were easily burst by the fermentation of new wine.) 

What is the application of the two verses'? (All things 
should be suited to times, circumstances and persons. 
For my disciples to mourn and to fast while they 
enjoy my presence, would be as absurd as to put new 
cloth upon an old garment, or new wine into old 
bottles.) 



LESSON XIII. 

RAISING TO LIFE OF THE RULER'S DAUGHTER, 
Chapter ix, 18=38. 

18. Who now came to him? 
How did he approach him ? 
What did he say ? 
What did he request him to do? 

What is referred to by, these things? 

What is meant by, a ruler ? (A person who attended the 

affairs of the synagogue and directed the worship 

there performed.) 



58 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 13. 

What by, worshiped him ? 

How did he exhibit his faith in Christ ? 

19. What did Jesus do? 
Who accompanied him ? 

Who are meant by his disciples ? 

20. Who came behind him ? 
What did she do? 

What is meant by, the hem of his garment ? (The Jewish 
mantle, or upper garment, had four corners, at each of 
which was suspended a tassel of threads, Deut. xxii, 12. 
The supposed sacredness of this probably led the wo- 
man to think of touching that part of the garment 
rather than any other.) 

21. What had she said within herself? 

22. What did Jesus do ? 
What did he say to her ? 
What then occurred ? 

In what sense did her faith make her whole ? 
What is the meaning of made whole ? 

23. In what state did Jesus find the ruler's 
house ? 

Who are meant by the minstrels f (They were singing 
women, who attended funerals for hire. Mourning 
women are still employed on such occasions in the 
East.) 

24. What did he say to them ? 
How did they treat him? 

What is meant by, give place f 

What did he mean by saying, the maid is not dead ? (That 

the extinction of life was not final.) 
What is meant by, they laughed him to scorn ? 



Ch. 9.] QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 59 

25. What was done with the people ? 
What did Jesus then do ? 

What is said of the maid ? 

What is meant by, were put forth ? 

What by, he went in ? 

What is implied in the words, the maid arose f 

26. Where did this miracle become known ? 

What is meant by, the fame hereof? 
What by, all that land ? 

27. Who followed Jesus as he departed ? 
What did they say ? 

Why did they style him, thou son of David? 

What did they imply in their prayer, have mercy on us ? 

28. When he entered the house, who came 
to him? 

What did Jesus say to them ? 
How did they answer him? 

If they were blind, how could they follow him "? 
Why did he ask them the question, Believe ye that I am 
able to do this? 

29. What did Jesus then do to them ? 
What did he say ? 

Why did he touch their eyes ? 

In what respect was the healing in accordance with their 
faith ? 

30. What then occurred? 
How did Jesus charge them ? 

What is meant by, straitly charged them? 
Why did he wish no man to know it ? 



31. What did they do? 



60 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Leg. 13 s 

Were they justified in this ? 

What did they exhibit ? (Zeal without prudence.) 

32. As they went out who was brought to 
him? 

Who are meant by, they went out ? 

33. What was done for the man ? 
How were the multitudes affected ? 
What did they say ? 

What is the meaning of this expression ? 

34. What did the Pharisees say? 

What did they mean by this charge ? 

What did they admit in making the charge ? (That a 

miracle had actually been accomplished.) 
Why could not their accusation be true ? 

35. How did our Lord now employ his time ? 

W T hat is meant by, preaching the Gospel of the kingdom t 
In what part of the country did he thus labor? (In 
Galilee.) 

36. How was he affected when he saw the 
multitudes ? 

Why was he so moved ? 

Where were these multitudes at this time ? 
What is meant by, because they fainted ? (Were exhaust- 
ed with fasting and fatigue.) 
What is meant b}', were scattered abroad ? 

37. What did he say to his disciples ? 

What is the meaning of this? 
Is it true at the present day ? 
How ought we to feel in reference to this fact ? 

38. What should they do ? 

Who is meant by, the Lord of the harvest ? 
In what way does he send forth laborers ? 
What is here meant by, his harvest ? 



Ch. 10.] QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 61 



LESSON XIV. 

THE APPOINTMENT AND SENDING FORTH OF THE 

APOSTLES. 

Chapter x 9 1-18. 

1. Whom did he call to him ? 
What power did he give them ? 

What is meant by, power against unclean spirits ? 
Why was this power bestowed upon them? 
Why is it not necessary that ministers should continue to 
enjoy this power? 

2. What were the names of the twelve 
apostles? 

What is the meaning of ajiostle 1 

3. What names of the apostles are given 
in this verse ? 

4. What are the names of the remainder ? 

What is meant by, ivho also betrayed him f 

5. What did Jesus do to these twelve ? 
What command did he enjoin upon them? 

What is meant by, into the \oay of the Gentiles ? 

Who were the Samaritans ? (Bib. Sch. Man., p. 133.) 

Why were they not to go to these ? (As God's chosen 

people, the Jews, were to hear the first offers of the 

Gospel.) 
When was the Gospel sent to the Gentiles? (Matt, 

xxviii, 19.) 

6. To whom should they rather go? 

Who are meant by the lost sheep of the house of Israel ? 



62 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. U. 

7. What should they do as they went ? 
What should they say ? 

What is it to preach ? 

What is meant by the saying, the kingdom of heaven is at 
hand ? 

8. What other labors should they perform ? 
How should they dispense their acts of 

healing ? 

How would they be enabled to perform these miracles ? 
What is meant by, freely ye have received ? 

9 What should they not provide ? 

Yv T hy should they make no provision of this character ? 

10. What other provisions were they not 
to make? 

What does our Lord say of the workman ? 

What is meant by, scrip ? (A traveling-bag or wallet to 

carry provisions in.) 
What is meant by, neither two coats, neither shoes ? (That 

is, only one coat and one pair of shoes — take no 

change.) 
What by, the workman is worthy of his meat ? 

11. When they entered a town, what in- 
quiry should they make ? 

What should they then do ? 

What is meant by, worthy ? (Hospitable.) 

Were there inns or hotels in these days, and in that 
country ? 

Why should they abide in one place? (Not to appear 
dainty or dissatisfied, but to be content with such ac- 
commodations as they met with.) 

12. What should they do when they came 
into a house? 



Ch. 10.] QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 63 

What is meant by, salute it ? (Use the accustomed salu- 
tation to the family, which was, " Peace he to this 
house." Be courteous.) 

13. If the house be worthy, what should he 
done? 

But if it he not worthy, what should they 
do? 

What is meant by, let your peace com e upon it ? (Let 
your prayer and blessing abide upon it.) 

What by, if it be not worthy ? 

What by, let your peace return to you ? (It shall not re- 
ceive any benefit from your previous benediction — it is 
a Hebrew expression, signifying that the hoped-for 
success should not be attained.) 

14. How should they conduct toward those 
that did not receive them ? 

What was signified by this act '? (The dust of all heathen 
lands was thought to be polluted, hence the meaning 
is, show by this symbolical action that you esteem such 
a house or city as impure and polluted. This will be 
"for a testimony against them," that is, a token that 
they are unworthy.) 

15. What does he say of such a city ? 

What is the meaning of tolerable ? 
What is meant by, the day of judgment? 
Where was the land of Sodom ? 
"What had happened to Sodom and Gomorrah ? 
Why had such punishment been visited upon them ? 
In what respect would the punishment of those that re- 
jected the Gospel be more unendurable? 
What solemn lesson can we learn from this ? 

16. How did our Lord send them forth ? 
What caution did he enjoin upon them? 



64 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 14, 

What is meant by the expression, as sheep in the midst of 
wolves ? (A proverbial phrase, denoting the most im- 
minent danger.) 

What is meant by, as wise as serpents ? (Serpents were reck- 
oned by the ancients remarkable for their sagacity ; it 
is certain that they have a peculiar vivacity in their 
eyes ; so that to be sharp-sighted as a serpent, was a 
proverb among the Greeks and Romans.) 

What by, harmless as doves ? 

17. Of whom should they beware? 
Why should they do this ? 

What is meant by, beware of men 9 . (That is, beware of 

these men, whom I have described as wolves.) 
What is here meant by, council ? (Judicial tribunals.) 
What by, scourge you in their synagogues ? (Courts were 
kept in the synagogues, where the penalty of scourging 
was inflicted.) 

18. Before whom should they he brought? 
For what purpose would this be permitted ? 

What is implied in being brought before governors and 

kings ? 
What is meant by, for a testimony against them and the 

Gentiles ? (That by this means ye may bear testimony 

in favor of the Gospel, both to the Jews and to the 

Gentiles, which shall be a source of condemnation to 

them if they reject it.) 
With such an assurance of bitter persecution before 

them, what only could have induced the apostles to go 

forth upon their mission ? 

Have we any similar duty ? 



Oh. 10. QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 65 



LESSON XV. 

COMMISSION OF THE APOSTLES. 
Chapter x, 19-42. 
What was the closing subject of the last lesson ? 

19. When delivered up, what did our Lord 
say his apostles should not do ? 

Why should they not take thought? 

What is here meant by, deliver you up ? 

What by, take no thought? (Be not anxiously solicitous.) 

What by, it shall he given you ? 

20. What further does he sav on this sub- 
ject? 

What is the meaning of this verse? (A Hebrew idiom, 
for it is not so much ye, as the Holy Ghost speaking 
by you. The Holy Ghost shall in a miraculous man- 
ner suggest thoughts to your minds, and direct you in 
your defenses before your persecutors.) 

Does this promise refer to the apostles alone, or does it 
continue in force at the present time ? 

Why was this special operation of the Spirit bestowed 
upon the apostles? (Because they were few amid 
hosts of unbelievers, and the authority of the Gospel 
was to be established by their clear and powerful de- 
fenses of it.) 

21. What does our Lord say the brother 
should do? 

What the father ? 

What does he say of the children ? 

What would induce such a course ns this? 



66 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 15. 

How do you account for the persecutions which Chris- 
tians have received ? 

What argument can be derived from their endurance of 
these sufferings in favor of Christianity ? 

22. How should they be regarded ? 
But what should be their reward ? 

W T hat is meant by, being hated of all men ? 
What by, for my name-sake ? 
What by, enduring to the end ? 
What by, shall be saved ? 

23. What should they do when persecuted 
in one city ? 

What reason does he give for this ? 

What is meant by, have gone over the cities of Israel ? 

What by, till the Son of Man be come ? (That is, until 
his coming and kingdom shall be openly proclaimed to 
all, both Jews and Gentiles, and thus the whole world 
be opened as the scene of the apostolic labors. They 
were at first not to preach that the kingdom of the 
Messiah had come, but that it was at hand.) 

24. What does he say of the disciple and 
servant ? 

What is the meaning of this ? 

25. What should be considered sufficient for 
the disciple and servant ? 

What had they called the master ? 
What besides would they be likely to do? 

Who is here meant by the master of the house 1 
Who was Beelzebub ? 

Who are meant by, them of his household ? 
What then is the meaning of the verse'? 

26. What should they not therefore do? 
What reason is g;iven for this ? 



Ch. 10.] QUESTIONS OX MATTHEW. G7 . 

What is signified by this ? (A proverbial expression de- 
noting that truth cannot be extinguished ; as if he 
had said, Fear not your persecutors, for your cause, 
though it may be depressed for a time, will ultimately 
triumph.) 

27. How further does our Lord illustrate 
this ? 

What is here meant by darkness ? (In private.) 

What by, in light ? (Publicly.) 

What by, preaching upon the house-tops ? (In the most 
public manner. The houses of the Jews had flat roafs, 
and from them proclamations were made to the people.) 

28. Whom should they not fear ? 
Whom rather should they fear ? 

Who are meant by, them which kill the body ? 

Who by him ichich is oMe to destroy both soul and body ? 

In what sense will the soul ever be destroyed ? 

What is meant by, in hell ? 

What may we learn from this passage ? 

29. What question does he ask? 
What does he say of the sparrow ? 

How much was & farthing ? (About equal to three cents.) 
What is meant by, shall not fall on the ground ? 
What by, without your Father ? (Without the knowledge 
or permission of God.) 

30. What further does our Lord say of the 
care of our heavenly Father ? 

What is implied in this ? 

81. How does he apply these illustrations ? 

Why should this fact relieve their fears ? 

32. What promise does he make to those 
who confess him before men ? 



68 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 15. 

What is meant by, confess me before men ? (Profess and 

preach his Gospel.) 
What by, will I confess also before my Father ? 

33. What is said of him who should deny 

Christ ? 

What is it to deny the Saviour ? 

What to he denied by him ? 

What solemn truth is contained in this verse? 

34. What should they not think ? 
For what purpose had he come ? 

What is the meaning of this passage ? (In this and the 
following verses, Christ does not mean that the design 
of his coming into the world was to produce wars and 
disunions, but merely that through the base passions 
of men, such would be the event; and such it has 
often been in the history of Christianity.) 

35. How does he further express the same 
idea? 

How do you explain this ? 

36. Who should a man's foes he ? 

What is the meaning of this ? 

Ought the opposition of our friends to hinder us in the 
performance of duty ? 

37. Who would not be considered worthy 
of him? 

What is it to love a father or son, or daughter, more than 
Christ? 

What is meant by, is not icorthy of me ? 

How may we know where our affections are most strong- 
ly placed? 

38. Who beside is not worthy of Christ ? 



Ch. 10.1 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 69 

What is meant by, tahcth not his cross? (Willing to en- 
dure every form of persecution, alluding to the custom 
of making the criminal bear his own cross.) 

What is meant by, folio iceth after me? 

39. What is said of him that findeth and 
loseth his life? 

What is the meaning of this verse ? (Ee who by ma- 
king a sacrifice of his duty, preserves temporal life, 
shall lose eternal life, and contrariwise.) 

What ought we to learn from this, in reference to the 
true objects of life? 

What shall we think of the wisdom of any one who 
sacrifices the soul for a temporary gratification ? 

40. What does he say of such persons as 
received his disciples ? 

lat of those that received him ? 

What is meant by, he that receivcth you ? 
In what sense would he also receive Christ ? 
What is meant by, receiveth him tluit sent me ? 
How should this lead us to regard the ministers of the 
Gospel? 

41. How does he still further expound this 
truth ? 

Who is here meant h\ & prophet ? 

What by a prophets reward, ? (A reward just the same as 
if he had himself been sent as a prophet.) 

What is meant by, in the name of a righteous man ? (Be- 
cause he is a righteous man.) 

What interesting truth may we learn from this ? (That 
if we cooperate with the servants of God we share in 
their reward.) 

42. How, finallv, does he express this 
truth ? 

YvTio are meant by, these little ones 7 



70 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 16. 

What is meant by, in the name of a disciple f 
Why should this small act be rewarded ? (Because any 
act of kindness toward them as disciples, however 
small the benefit, shows a spirit of love to Christ.) 
What may we learn from this as to our ability to do 
good ? 



LESSON XVI. 

CHRIST'S ANSWER TO THE DISCIPLES OF JOHN 
THE BAPTIST. 

Chapter xi, 1-30. 

1. How had our Lord been engaged previous 
to the events recorded in this chapter? 

For what purpose did he depart ? 

What is meant by, commanding his twelve disciples ? 
What is the difference between teaching and preaching ? 

2. Where was John ? 
What had he heard ? 
What did he do ? 

What are here meant by the works of Christ ? 

3. What question were they to ask ? 

What was the meaning of the question, Art thou he that 
should come ? 

4. What did Jesus say to them ? 

5. What had they seen and heard ? 

What had been predicted of the Messiah ? (Isa. 

xxxv, 4-6.) 
How then did these miracles answer John's question? 



Ch. 11.] QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 71 

6. Whom did Jesus say -was blessed ? 

What is the meaning of this? (Blessed is he -who is 
not stumbled by my humble character and doctrines 
— who does not distrust or reject me.) 

7. What question did Jesus ask as they de- 
parted ? 

By what other question did he answer it ? 

What is here meant by, a reed shaken with the wind ? (A 
tickle, wavering man.) 

8. What did he again ask ? . 

What did he say of those that wear soft 
clothing? 

What is meant by, soft raiment ? 

W 7 hat by a man clothed in it? (A man of feeble and 

effeminate character.) 
What is meant by, they that wear soft clothing are in king's 

houses ? 
How was John clothed ? 
What was his character ? 

9. What question did he once more ask ? 
What did he then say ? 

What is & prophet ? 

What is meant by, more than a prophet ? (Superior to 
any preceding prophet.) 

10. What does our Lord then say of John ? 

WTiere is this written? (Mai. iii, 1.) 
Before whom had John been sent ? 

11. What further does he say of John? 
Who is greater than he ? 

Can you mention any reason why John was greater than 
all the preceding prophets? 



72 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 16. 

Who is meant by, the least in the kingdom of heaven ? 
In what sense is lie greater than John ? 

12. What had happened since the days of 
John ? 

What is the meaning of this ? (The meaning seems to 
be, that from the commencement of the preaching of 
John the Baptist, until the present time, great multi- 
tudes had come with the utmost zeal and ardor, de- 
siring to be received into the kingdom of the Messiah.) 

13. What had all the prophets done ? 

What is meant by, the prophets and the law ? (The Old 

Testament Scriptures.) 
What is meant by, prophesied until John ? (The writers of 
the Old Testament foretold of Christ, but John saw him.) 

14. Who does he say John was ? 

What is meant by, if ye will receive it ? (If ye are will- 
ing to believe it.) 

What is meant by, this is Elias which was for to come f 
(This is Elijah, the person whom Malachi, Chap, iv, 5,(5, 
describes under that name, as to be sent before the 
coming of the day of the Lord. From this prophecy 
the Jews were expecting the reappearance of the 
Prophet Elijah.) 

15. How does he enforce what he has just 
said? 

What does this mean t (It was the mode of calling at- 
tention to things of a serious import.) 

16. 17. What question did Jesus now ask? 
How did he answer it ? 

What is the import of this ? (The signification of the 
figure is, that the people of that generation were like 
wayward children, whom nothing would please ; if 
their fellows piped to them in imitation of musicians 
on festive occasions, they would notdance, and if they 
sang mournful songs in imitation of mourners at fune- 
rals, they would not lament.) 



Ch. 11.1 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 73 

18, 19. How does our Lord apply his illus- 
tration ? 

What is the meaning of this *? (They were alike dis- 
pleased with the austere virtues and stern demeanor 
of John the Baptist, and with the mild and gentle 
character of the Saviour.) 

What is meant by, neither eating nor drinking f 

What by, he hath a devil f 

What by, the Son of Man came eating and drinking? 

What by, wisdom is justified, of her children? (The truly 
wise would appreciate the wisdom of the course pur- 
sued by John and oj the Saviour.) 

20. What did he now begin to do ? 
Why did he do this ? 

What is the meaning of upbraid ? 

What is here meant by, might y works? 

What is meant by, repented, not ? 

What mighty works of Christ have we seen done ? 

What will be the consequence if we do not repent ? 

21. What woe did he pronounce? 

What is the meaning of tcoe unto thee ? 

Where were these cities situated *? ■(Upon the Sea of 
Galilee.) 

What has become of these cities '? (Scarcely a trace of 
them remains.) 

What had happened to Tyre and Sidon ? (From being 
wealthy and prosperous cities, they had sunk into in- 
significance.) 

What is meant by, icould have repented in sackcloth and 
ashes ? (In the bitterest grief.) 

Can we learn any lesson from this passage ? 

22. What does he say of them ? 

What is the meaning of more tolerable ? 

23. What does he say of Capernaum? 



74 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 16. 

What is meant by, exalted unto heaven ? 
What is meant by, brought down to hell ? 

24. What further does he say ? 

What is the meaning of this ? 

What ought we to learn in reference to our religious 
privileges ? 

25, 26. What remarkable saying did Jesus 
utter at this time ? 

What is meant by, that thou hast hid f (Hast permitted 

to be hidden.) 
What is meant by, these things ? (The truths relating to 

the Gospel dispensation.) 
Who are meant by, the toise and prudent ? (Those noted 

for their worldly wisdom.) 
What is meant by, revealed them unto babes t (Made them 

known to persons of humble character and station ? 
What by, so it seemed good in thy sight ?) 

27. What does lie say had been delivered 
to him ? 

Who only knew the Son ? 
Who the Father ? 

What is meant by, oil things are delivered unto me ? 

What by, no man knoweth the Son but the Father ? 

What by, neither knoweth any man the Father save the 

Sont 
What by, he to whomsoever the Son icill reveal him ? 

28. What beautiful invitation does he now 
give ? 

What is meant by, Come unto me ? 
What by, weary and heavy laden ? 
What by, / will give you rest ? 
Have you accepted this invitation? 

29. What did he enjoin upon them? 



Ch. 12.] QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 75 

What does lie say of himself? 
What should they find ? 

What is here meant by, his yoke ? 
What by, learn of me? 
What by, / am meek and lowly in heart ? 
What by, finding rest unto your souls 1 

30. What does Christ say of his yoke and 
burden ? 

What is the meaning of this ? 

Have vou ever sought to bear this yoke and burden ? 



LESSON XVII. 

APPROPRIATE WORK FOR THE SABBATH. 
Chapter xii, 1-21. 

1. On what day did our Lord and his dis- 
ciples pass through a field of corn? 

In what state were his disciples at this 
time ? 

What did they begin to do ? 

What is here meant by, at that time ? (At a certain 
time ; the phrase does not denote the regular order of 
time.) 

W T as the plucking of ears of corn to eat unlawful, accord- 
ing to the Jewish law ? (It was not, as will be seen 
by reading Deut. xxxiii, 25.) 

Of what sin did the Pharisees esteem the disciples guilty ? 
(They professed to call it servile and unnecessary 
work, which Moses had forbidden on the Sabbath. 
Exod. xx, 10.) 



76 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Lea. 17. 

Which of our days answers to the Jewish Sabbath ? 
What is meant by, an hungered ? 
What by, com ? (Barley or wheat.) 

2. What did the Pharisees say when they 
saw it ? 

Why did they complain to Jesus and not reprimand the 
disciples ? 

3. What did our Lord say to them ? 

Who was David ? 

Where is the account of the act referred to recorded I 
(1 Sam. xxi, 4-6.) • 

4. What had David done ? 

What is here meant by, the house of God ? 

What by, sheic tread? (The twelve loaves placed every 
Sabbath-day upon the golden table in the sanctuary ; 
the priests only being allowed to eat them. Exod. 
xxv, 30.) 

What was the application of this illustration to the case 
in hand? (The priest had allowed David and his men 
when hungry, and no other food was to be had, to 
break the letter of the Mosaic law, and they, the Phari- 
sees, found no fault with it. Necessity knew no law. 
So the necessity of the disciples justified them in doing 
on the Sabbath, what would have been otherwise un- 
lawful.) 

5. What further did he say in illustration 
of this subject? 

What is the meaning of this ? . (The priests in the tem- 
ple were obliged to offer two lambs for a burnt-offering 
every Sabbath-day. This rendered it necessary that 
they should perform servile work, which under any 
other circumstances would be a profanation of the 
Sabbath.) 

6. Who did he say was in that place? 

To whom did he refer in this expression ? 



Ch. 12.] QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 77 

What was its application to the subject ? (If the temple- 
service be au excuse for the priests in such cases, my 
service must equally excuse my disciples for plucking 
the ears of corn on the Sabbath. A plain assumption 
of divinity ; for how could our Saviour be greater than 
the temple which was dedicated to Jehovah, except he 
were the Lord of the temple, whose coming was fore- 
told i*i Mai. iii, 1 ?) 

7. To what scripture does our Lord refer ? 
What effect would an understanding of it 

have had upon them? 

Where is this scripture written? (Hos. vi, 6.) 
What is the import of the passage ? 

What is meant by, ye would not have condemned the guilt- 
less? 

8. Of what does he say the Son of Man is 

Lord? 

What is the meaning* of this? (The Saviour seems to 
place his defense of the act of the disciples in travel- 
ing and gathering food on the Sabbath, on the ground 
of a dispensation from the usual obligations of the day 
made on his authority, as the Messiah.) 

9. Where did he go from thence ? 

10. Who was present on this occasion ? 
What question did they ask our Lord ? 
Why did they ask this question ? 

What is meant by a withered hand ? 

What is meant by, is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath 

day? 
What is meant by, that they might accuse him? 

11. What question did Jesus ask them in 
return ? 

12. How does the Lord apply the illustra- 
tion ? 



78 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 17. 

What does he then say ? 

What is the application of the question, how much then is 
a man better than a sheep ? 

13. What did he then say to the man ? 

What did the man do ? 
What followed ? 

How could the man stretch forth h s witnered hand ? 

What may we learn from his obedience in what seemed 
well-nigh an impossibility ? 

What results always follow implicit obedience to the di- 
vine commands ? 

14. What did the Pharisees do ? 

What is meant by, held a council ? 
What by, how they might destroy him? 

15. Was this purpose known to Jesus ? 
What did he do? 

Who followed him ? 

What acts of mercy did he perform for 
them ? 

How did Jesus know of the intentions of the Pharisees ? 
What is meant by, he healed them all? 

16. What charge did he enjoin upon them? 

17. The words of what prophet were now 
fulfilled ? 

18. How had he spoken ? 

"Where is this written ? (Isa. xlii, 1-4.) 
What is meant by, I will put my Spirit upon him? 
What is meant by, he shall shoiv judgment to the Gentiles ? 
(Reveal the truth to the Gentiles as well as Jews.) 

19. What further is said of him ? 

What is meant by, he shall not strive? (Be contentious.) 



Ch. 12.] QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 79 

What is meant by, nor cry ? 

20. How is his character still further por- 
trayed ? 

What is the meaning of the expression, a bruised reed he 
shall not break? (He shall be so gentle as not to offend 
the weakest and most tender. A bruised reed is an 
emblem of one oppressed under sorrow of spirits.) 

What is referred to by the words, the smoking flax f (The 
flaxen wick of a lamp when expiring — significant of 
helplessness.) 

What is meant by, till lie send forth judgment unto victory ? 
(Till the truth which he proclaims is victorious.) 

21. Who shall trust him ? 

What is meant bv, in his name shall the Gentiles trust ? 



LESSON XVIII. 

THE SIN AGAINST THE HOLY GHOST — UNBELIEF 
EEBUKED. 

Chapter xii, 22-50. 

22. Who was brought unto Jesus? 
How thoroughly did Jesus heal him ? 

23. How were the people affected ? 
What did they say ? 

What did they mean by this question ? (Is not this the 
expected Messiah ?) 

24. What did the Pharisees say ? 

What is signified by the expression, this fellotu? 
What is meant by, but by Beelzebub f (He is in confed- 
eracy with Satan.) 



80 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Lis. 18. 

25. What did Jesus know ? 
What did he say to them ? 

What is the force of the Saviour's answer ? (That it is 
absurd to suppose that Satan will act against himself, 
by casting out his own subjects who possess the minds 
and bodies of men.) 

26. How does he apply his figure? 

27. How does he still further pursue the 
subject? 

What did he say their children should be ? 

What is meant by the question, by whom do your children 
cast them out ? (By whom do your own disciples, per* 
sons of your own party ? This does not assert that any 
Jews really did cast out devils, but that they attempted 
it, and were reputed to do it. The argument is, if I cast 
out demons by the aid of Satan, your followers and 
disciples must also be in the same confederacy, and be 
also condemned by your judgment of me.) 

28. What does he say of himself? 

What is meant by, the Spirit of God? 

What by, the kingdom of God has come unto you ? 

29. What additional illustration does our 
Lord present ? 

How does this apply to the subject they were consider- 
ing? (To expel evil spirits from the places where 
they had established themselves, evinces a power 
stronger than that which those spirits ordinarily obey- 
ed, therefore my power must be divine, as I am able to 
cast out the ministers of Satan.) 

30. What general princiole does our Lord 
now lay down ? 

What is implied in this verse ? 

31. What did lie say should be forgiven to 
men ? 



Ch. 12.] QUESTIONS OX MATTHEW. 81 

What should not he forgiven ? 

What is blasphemy f 

What had been the sin of the Pharisees ? (They had 
maliciously and stubbornly ascribed to Satan the work 
of Jesus, which they well knew could only be per- 
formed by divine power.) 

What is the sin referred to in this verse usually called? 

What then may be considered the sin against the Holy 
Ghost? (Attributing to the devil what is manifestly 
the work of the Spirit of God ; or perhaps, a deliberate, 
willful, and persistent resistance of the Holy Spirit in 
our hearts.) 

Need penitent persons, then, fear that they have commit- 
ted this sin ? 

32. What further does he say of sins that 
may be pardoned ? 

What of a word against the Holy Ghost ? 

What is meant by, a word against the Son of Man f (In 
his human nature ,' his lowly birth and humble condi- 
tion offering some occasion for mistaking his true 
character.) 

What is meant by, speaketh against the Holy Spirit ? 
(Against the divine power, which could net be mis- 
taken, as exhibited in miraculous acts.) 

33. What other principles does our Lord 
here lay down? 

What does this mean ? (They attributed the Saviour's 
acts in healing the sick and relieving the suffering to 
a wicked influence — this was making a bad tree pro- 
duce good fruit ; while his good acts proved that they 
came from a good cause.) 

34. What severe denunciation did he pro- 
nounce upon them ? 

Out of what does the mouth speak ? 

Why does he call them vipers ? 
6 



82 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Leg. 18. 

What is the meaning of, out of the abundance of the heart 
the mouth speaketh t 

35. "What does he say of the good man ? 

What of the evil? 

86. "What solemn truth does he then utter ? 

What is meant by, every idle word t 
What by, the day of judgment f 
What ought we to learn from this ? 

37. What consequence should turn upon 
their words ? 

What is the meaning of justified f 
What is the meaning of condemned? 
What is the force of the verse ? 

38. What did certain of the Scribes and 
Pharisees ask him ? 

What is here meant by a sign ? (A sign from heaven — 
some stupendous miracle, to prove his divine mission.) 

39. What answer did Jesus give them ? 

Who is meant by Jonas ? 

In what sense was he a sign ? (As the prophetic office 
of Jonah was confirmed to the Ninevites, by his mi- 
raculous deliverance, on the third day, from the belly 
of the fish ; so the divine authority of Christ should 
be confirmed to the Jews by his resurrection on the 
third day.) 

40. What does he say of this sign ? 

Where is this event in Jonah's history recorded ? 
When was the Son of Man three days and three nights 
in the heart of the earth ? 

41. What does he say of the men of Nine- 
veh ? 

Why would they do this ? 



Ch. 12.j QL'hSTIOXS OX MATTHEW. 83 

Who was present there 2 

What is meant by, shall rise in judgment ? 

"What by, condemn it ? 

Who is referred to as one greater than Jonah ? 

42. What did he say of the queen of the 
south ? 

What had she done ? 
Who was there ? 

Who was the queen of the south ? (The queen of Sheba, 
1 Kings x, 1, a country some suppose to have laid 
south of 3udea, others that it was on the borders of 
the Rsd Sea, in Arabia Felix.) 

What is here meant by, the uttermost parts of the earth''! 

43. What occurs when the unclean spirit is 
gone out ? 

What is meant by an unclean spirit ? 

What, by dry places ? (Desert places. It was a common 

notion that evil spirits had their haunts in desolate 

places.) 

44. What did the man then say and do ? 
How does he find it ? 

45. What does he then do ? 
What is said of his last state ? 

How does he apply the whole to his hearers? 

What is the meaning of the last three verses '? (The 
Jews thought that barren places were inhabited by 
demons, who occupied them when not engaged in tor- 
menting men. Our Lord adopts their prejudices to 
illustrate the truth that resisting conviction of sin. and 
treating divine things with indifference will be follow- 
ed by increased hardness of heart. They had, in a 
measure, repented under John the Baptist, but had re- 
lapsed and become harder and more corrupt than 
before.) 



84 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 19. 

46. Who stood without while he was talk- 
ing ? 

What did they desire ? 

Who are meant by, his mother and brethren f 
What by, stood without ? 

47. What did one say to Jesus ? 

48. How did Jesus answer ? 

49. What did he then do ? 

Did our Lord intend any disrespect to his mother ? 

50. What did he further say ? 

What is the meaning of this ? 

Does this Scripture give any countenance to the Roman 

Catholic notion of the divine character of the mother 

of Jesus ? 
Why must it be blessed to do the will of God ? 



LESSON XIX. 

THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER. 
Chapter xill, 1-30* 

1. Where did Jesus go on the same day ? 

What is meant by, the same day ? 

What sea is referred to ? 

Why did he sit while he taught ? 

2. Who came to him ? 
What was he forced to do ? 
Where did the multitude remain? 



Ch. 13.] QUESTIONS OX MATTHEW. 50 

3. How did he speak to them ? 
How did he commence a parable ? 

What is a parable ? (A short narrative of some event or 
fact, real or imaginary, in which some important doe- 
trine, moral or religious, is taught.) 

Who is meant by a sower ? 

4. Where did some seeds fall? 
What became of them? 

What is meant by the way-side ? 

5. Where did other seeds fall ? 
What happened to them ? 

6. How were they affected by the sun ? 
What finally happened to them ? 

7. Where besides did seeds fall ? 
What fate befell them ? 

What is meant by the thorns choking the seeds ? 

8. Where did others fall ? 
What did they bring forth ? 

What is meant by, a hunched fold ? 

9. How does he enforce this parable ? 

What is the meaning of this expression ? 

10. What question did his disciples ask 
him? 

11. How did he answer them ? 

"What is meant by, it is given unto you to know? 

What is meant by, the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven f 
(The Gospel of Christ — many of the truths of which 
are beyond the power of human reason to discover, 
and which are only known from revelation.) 

What is meant by, to them it is nvt given ? 

12. What general principle does he lay 
down ? 



86 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Xes. 19. 

What is the meaning of this? (Whosoever makes a 
proper use of the means and talents afforded to him, 
will receive abundance of grace and assistance ; hut 
whosoever does not make this profitable use of them, 
these opportunities and advantages shall be withdrawn 
from him ? 

13. Why does he say he used parables ? 

What is signified by these words ? 

14 ? 15. What prophecy was thus fulfilled? 
What had befallen the people ? 

Where is this scripture recorded ? (Isa. vi, 9.) 

What is the application of the fourteenth verse ? 

What is meant by, their heart is waxed gross? (Their 

mind is gross and stupefied.) 
What is meant by, lest at any time? (Equivalent to, so 

that they do not see.) 
Was this blindness and stupidity willful ? 

16. What blessing does he pronounce upon 
them ? 

17. What had prophets and righteous men 
desired to see ? 

Who are here meant by prophets and righteous men ? 
What is meant by, those things which ye see ? 

18. To what does he then recall their at- 
tention ? 

19. How does he describe the person who 
received seed by the way-side ? .; 

What is meant by, the word of the kingdom ? 

What by, understandeth it not ? 

Who by, the wicked one ? 

What by, catching away that which was sown ? 

20. What does he say of the stony-place 
hearer ? 



Ch. 13.] QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 87 

21. What happens to him ? 

What effect has tribulation and persecution 
upon him ? 

What is meant by, he hath no root in himself f (Does not 

permit the Gospel to sink deep into his heart.) 
What by, dureth for a while ? 
What by, is offended f 

22. What does he say of him that received 
seed among thorns ? 

What is here meant by thorn* ? 

What is meant by, the deceit fulness of riches 1 

What is meant by, choice the tcord t 

23. What is said of him that received seed 
into the good ground ? 

What is meant by, understandeth it ? 

What kind of fruit is referred to here ? 

What is meant by, a hundredfold, &e. ? 

Into what soil does the seed fall in your heart ? 

What fruit are you producing ? 

24. What other parable did he put forth? 

25. What happened while men slept? 

26. What appeared when the blade sprung 
up? 

27. What did the servants of the house- 
holder say ? 

28. What answer did he give them ? 
What did the servants propose to do ? 

29. What did the householder say in re- 
turn ? 

30. What should they do ? 

What would he say in harvest-time ? 

What is the signification of this parable ? 



88 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 20. 



LESSON XX. 

THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER EXPLAINED. 
Chapter xiii 9 31-58. 

31. What other parable did our Lord put 
forth? 

32. What is said of this seed ? 

What is meant by its being the least of all seeds f (It 
was the smallest seed producing a tree, in eastern 
countries.) 

In what sense is the kingdom of heaven like to the mus- 
tard-seed ? (Id its wonderful growth from small be- 
ginnings.) 

33. What is the parable of the leaven ? 

'What is leaven? 

What is meant by, three measures of meal ? 

What is the application of this parable ? 

34. How did Jesus speak these things ? 

What is meant by, loithout a parable spake lie not unto 
them '? (He did not address the multitude at this time 
without one.) 

35. What prophecy was thus fulfilled ? 

Where is this scripture written? (Psa. lxxviii, 2.) 
What is here meant by, that it might be fulfilled? (So 

that was fulfilled ; or, the words of the prophet might 

be fitly applied in this case.) 

36. What did Jesus then do ? 
Where did he go ? 

What request did the disciples make to 
him? 



Ch. 13.] QUESTIONS OX MATTHEW. 89 

37. How did he commence his explanation? 

38. What is the field ? 

Who are represented by the good seed ? 
Who are the tares ? 

What is meant by, the field is the world} 

Who are meant by, the children of ilie kingdom t 

Who by, the children of the wicked one ? 

39. Who is the enemy ? 
When is the harvest ? 
Who are the reapers? 

Who is the devil ? 

What is meant by, the end, of the world ? 

Who are the angels? 

40. What becomes of the tares ? 
What should this be like ? 

41. Whom would the Son of Man send 
forth ? 

What would they do ? 

Y\~ho is meant by, the Son of Man ? 

By what power would he do this ? 

What is meant by, his kingdom? 

What by, all things that offend f (All who by false doc- 
trine or wicked lives cause others to fall off from their 
profession of Christianity.) 

What by, them which do iniquity? 

42. Where should they be cast? 

What should be the character of their suf- 
ferings ? 

What is here meant by, & furnace of fire ? 

What is signified by the words, mailing and gnashing of 

teeth ? 
Would our Saviour give us too strong representations of 

the woes of the lost ? 



90 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Leg. 20. 

What ought we to learn from this solemn verse ? 
How may we know whether we are classed with the 
wheat or tares ? 

43. What is said of the righteous ? 
How does he enforce the parable ? 

Who are meant by the righteous ? 

Wha f i? said in Daniel xii, 3? 

What is meant by, shall shine forth as the sun ? 

What by, in the kingdom of their Father ? 

44. To what does he again liken the king- 
dom of heaven? 

How is the man affected when he finds it ? 

What is here meant by, he hideth ? 

What seems to be the meaning of treasure here ? (Some 

rich mine or ore, and not treasure of money.) 
How does this account for his buying the field ? 
What is it the design of this parable to teach ? 
How do you regard religion ? 
What sacrifices ought you to be willing to make for it ? 

45. To what does he again liken the king- 
dom of heaven ? 

Who is meant by, a merchant-man ? 
What are pearls ? 

46. When he has discovered a pearl of 
great price, what does he do? 

What is the application of this parable ? 

47. What parable does he again put forth ? 

What is here implied by, every kind ? 

48. What was done with the net ? 
What with its contents ? 

49. How does the Lord apply the parable ? 



Ch. 13.] QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 91 

50. What shall be done with the wicked ? 
What should he the character of their 

sufferings? 

51. What question did Jesus ask the disci- 
ples? 

What was their answer ? 

Should you think any one could mistake our Lord's 

teachings in this chapter ? 
What must we infer in reference to the wicked, in 

another life ? 

52. What did he further say to them ? 

Who is here meant by, Scribe ? 

What by, instructed unto the kingdom of heaven ? 

What by, bringing forth things new and old ? 

What was the application of this parable to the disciples ? 

To whom may it now apply ? 

53. What did the Saviour do at the close 
of his discourse? 

54. Into what country did he come ? 
What did he then do ? 

How were the people affected ? 
What question did they ask ? 

What is meant by, his own country ? 

What was implied in the questions they ask ? 

55. 56. What further questions did they 
ask ? 

What is the meaning of these verses ? 
What, of the expression, Whence has this man all these 
things? 

57. How were they affected toward him? 
What did Jesus say to them ? 



92 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 21. 

What is the meaning of offended ? 

What was implied in our Lord's answer ? 

58. Why did he not do many mighty work}* 
there ? 

What are meant by, mighty works ? 

How would their unbelief hinder the works of Christ ? 

Will our unbelief have the same effect ? 



LESSON XXI. 

DEATH OF JOHN THE BAPTIST — FEEDING THE 
MULTITUDE — WALKING UPON THE SEA. 

Cliapter xiv 9 1=36. 

1. Who now heard of the fame of Jesus ? 

What Herod was this ? (Herod Antipas, son of Herod 
the Great.) 

What was a tetrarch ? (It properly signifies one who 
rules over the fourth part of a country, but the do- 
minions of Herod the Great were divided between his 
three sons, Archelaus, Antipas, and Philip; so that the 
word tetrarch had a general meaning, of a sovereign sub- 
ject to some superior sovereign, as a king or emperor.) 

2. What did he say to his servants ? 

Why did he think he was John the Baptist ? 
What is here meant by, mighty works ? 

3. What had Herod done to John ? 
For whose sake had he done this ? 

What is here meant by, laid hold on John ? 



Ch. UJ QUESTIONS ON MATTHEV,'. 93 

Who was Herodias ? (She was grand-daughter to Herod 
the Great, being the daughter of his son Aristobulus, 
and therefore niece of Philip and Antipas. Antipas 
visiting Philip, so much admired his brother's wife 
that he offered to marry her, if she would leave her 
husband, and she consented provided he obtained a 
divorce from his own wife. This was the crime which 
John the Baptist so boldly denounced.) 

4. "What had John said unto him? 

5. Why did he not put him to death at 
once ? 

How did they esteem John ? 

Why should he stand in fear of the multitude about this 

matter ? 
What is here meant by a prophet ? 

6. What day was kept ? 
What did Herodias do ? 

What was the effect upon Herod ? 

What is meant by his birth-day being kept? 

Who is meant by, danced before them ? 

Is there anything in the character or results of this per- 
formance of the daughter of Herodias that would en- 
courage the exercise of public dancing? 

7. How did Herod signify his satisfaction ? 

What induced him to make such a rash promise ? 
On what occasions are rash promises most frequently 
made ? 

8. From whom had she received instruction ? 
AYhat request did she make ? 

What is a charger ? 

Was it customary to present the head of a sentenced per- 
son in this way '? (Trinces of the East often required 
that the heads of those that were executed should be 
brought to them, both to be assured of the deed and to 
glut their feelings of revenge.) 



04 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 21. 

What must have been the character of the mother and 
daughter ? 

9. How was the king affected ? 
"Why did he order the execution ? 
What did he command? 

W T hy was the king sorry, do you think ? (Verse 5.) 
Why should he he influenced by them which sat with him ? 

10. What did he do? 

11. What was done with the head? 

What enabled her to overcome the natural horror which 
every one feels at the sight of a mangled corpse ? 

What must be the character of the heart that exhibits 
such passions ? 

12. W r hat did his disciples do? 
To whom did they then come ? 

Whose disciples are referred to here ? 
W 7 hat do they exhibit in this act ? 
Why did they come and tell Jesus ? 
Where should we go for comfort when we lose our 
friends ? 

13. What did Jesus do when he heard of 
this? 

What did the people do ? 

How would this news of John be calculated to induce the 
Saviour to retire for a time from the dominion of 
Herod? 

What is here meant by, a desert place ? 

What by, on foot ? (By land, as the sick, mentioned in 
the next verse, eould not have walked.) 

14. What did Jesus see ? 
How was he affected ? 



Gil. i -L-.] QUESTIONS W MATTHEW. 95 

What did he do for them ? 

15. Who came to him at even ? 
What did they say? 

What time is here meant by even! (The Jews had 
two evenings, the first of which began at three o'clock, 
and the second at sunset ; the first is referred to here.) 

What is meant by, the time is now past ? 

16. What answer did Jesus give them ? 

17. What did they say to him? 

18. What did he command them to do? 

19. What direction did he give the multi- 
tude ? 

What did he then do ? 
What did the disciples do ? 

What is meant by, he blessed? 
What by, and brake ? 

20. How ample was the supply ? 
How much was left ? 

What is meant by, were filled ? 

21. How many partook at this time ? 

What is there about this miracle, placing its divine char- 
acter beyond doubt ? 

22. What did Jesus then command ? 
What did he do with the multitude ? 

What is meant by, the other side ? 

23. When he had dismissed the multitude 
what did he do ? 

What occurred in the evening ? 

What mav we learn from this event in Christ's life ? 



96 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 21. 

24. Where was the ship ? 
How situated, and why? 

25. When did Jesus go to them ? 
In what way ? 

When was the fourth watch ? (From three to six o'clock 

in the morning.) 
How could he walk on the sea ? 

26. Who saw him ? 
How were they affected ? 
What did they say and do ? 

What is meant by, were troubled ? 
What by, it is a sjnrit ? 

27. What did Jesus say to them ? 

28. How did Peter answer him ? 

29. What answer did Jesus give him ? 
What did Peter do ? 

30. What did he observe ? 
How was he affected ? 
What did he begin to do ? 
How did he cry out ? 

31. What did Jesus do? 
What did he say to him ? 

What was the meaning of this question ? 

32. What occurred when they entered the 
ship ? 

33. What did the ship's company do ? 
What did they say ? 

What is meant by, worshiped ? 

What by, Of a truth thou art the Son of God ? 

How did the events of this morning assure them of this ? 



Ch. 15.] QUESTIONS OX MATTHEW. 97 

34. Where did they come ? 

"Where was this ? (It extended along nearly four miles 
on the west side of the lake. Capernaum and Tiberias 
were in this district.) 

35. What did the men of the place do ? 

What is meant by, had knowledge of him ? 
Can we learn a lesson from their course ? 

36. What did they beseech of him? 
What happened to them that touched him ? 

Why did touching the Saviour's garment secure a cure? 



LESSON XXII. 

TRADITIONS OF THE ELDERS. 
Chapter xv, 1-20* 

1. Who came to Jesus ? 

In what part of the country was our Lord at this time? 
(Chap, xiv, 34.) 

Where was Jerusalem ? 

What, probably, had drawn the Scribes and Pharisees at 
such a distance, to see Jesus? The fame of his mir- 
acles and wonderful teachings.) 

2. What question did they ask him? 
WHiat did his disciples do ? 

What is meant by, the tradition of the elders ? (The Jews 
pretended that when Moses was on Mount Sinai he re- 
ceived two sets of laws, one of which he published in 
writing, and the other by word of mouth only. The 



98 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 22, 

latter they say was handed down from father to son 
until it was recorded correctly in certain volumes 
called the Talmuds. These laws were numerous and 
trifling, like the one referred to in this verse, and 
many of them were opposed to the truth. The elders 
were the ancient doctors or teachers who inculcated 
these traditions.) 

3. What did our Lord say to them in an- 



swer 



9 



4. What had God commanded ? 

Where can this command be found ? (Exod. xx, 12.) 
Where the punishment of the one that curseth his pa- 
rents? (Lev. xx, 9.) 
What is meant by, let him die the death ? 

5, 6. What did they teach ? 

What had they done by this teaching ? 

What is here meant by, it is a gift? (That is, to God, 
consecrated to his service. The tradition authorized a 
son to withdraw from his parents, whatever they stood 
in need of from him, by going through such a form of 
consecrating it to God.) 

What by, whatsoever thou mightest he profited by me ? (What- 
ever I have by which you might be relieved, is conse- 
crated to God.) 

What by, he shall be free ? (Shall be relieved from the 
obligation to honor and maintain them.) 

How did this make the command of God of none effect ? 

7, 8. By what severe title did he address 

them ? 
From whose words did he quote ? 
What had Esaias said ? 

In what respect were they hypocrites ? 

Where is this prophecy ? (Isa. xxix, 13.) 

What is meant by, ivell did Esaias prophesy of you ? (The 

words which Isaiah addressed to the hypocrites of his, 

day are peculiarly applicable to you.) 



Ch. ML] QUESTIONS OX MATTHEW. 99 

What by, drawing nigh with the mouth ? 
What by, honoring with their lips ? 
What by, the heart is far from me ? 

Under what circumstances may we be guilty of the same 
sin? 

0. What did lie say of their worship? 

What is here meant by, in vain ? 

What by, doctrines ? (The duties of religion.) 

Y\ T hat by, the commandments of men? 

10. Whom did he call ? 

How did lie commence his address ? 

11. What did he say did not defile a man? 
What does defile a man ? 

To what does our Lord refer in this verse? (To the 
charge of legal pollution made in the second verse.) 

What did the Pharisees teach? (That sin consisted 
mainly in the neglect of prescribed rites and in out- 
ward impurities.) 

What does our Lord teach ? (That moral and spiritual 
corruption and impurity is what they ought to be most 
anxious to shun.) 

12. What did his disciples say to him ? 

What is meant by, offended ? 

13. What answer did Jesus make them? 

What is implied in this answer ? (Every religious doc- 
trine which is not of God, will be rejected by him. 
These traditions were of human origin.) 

14. What further did he say of them? 
What would finally happen to them ? 

What is meant by, let them alone ? (Regard them not.) 
What by, they be blind leaders of the blind? 

15. What request did Peter make? 

16. What did Jesus sav? 



100 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les.23. 

17, 18. How does our Lord again present 
the parable ? 

Can you give the distinction made in these verses? 
What is meant by, those things which proceed out of the 

mouth f 
What by, come forth from the heart 1 

19. What proceed from the heart? 

What is meant by, these sins proceeding from the heart? 
In whose heart are these sins found ? 
How may they be removed ? 

20. How do these things affect the man ? 
What does he say in reference to unwashen 

hands? 



LESSON XXIII. 

THE WOMAN OF CANAAN, 
Chapter xv, 21-39. 

21. Where did Jesus now go? 

The coast of what sea was this ? (Mediteranean.) 
What account can you give of Tyre and Sidon ? (Bible 
Scholar's Manual, page 117.) 

22. Who came to him ? 
What did she say ? 

What is meant by the expression, a woman of Canaan t 
(The inhabitants of this tract of country were de- 
scendants of the Canaanites, and were not driven out 
by the Israelites.) 



Cii. 15.] QUESTIONS UN MATTHEW. 101 

Why i3 she called a Syrophoenician woman in St. Mark's 
Gospel ? (The Greeks called this coast Phoenicia, and 
the inland portions being partly inhabited by Syrians, 
the inhabitants were called Syrophcenicians.) 

What is meant by, have mercy on me ? 

What by, grievously vexed with a devil ? 

23. How did Jesus regard her ? 
What did his disciples do ? 
What reason did they give ? 

Why, do yon think, Jesus refused to listen to her peti- 
tion at first ? 

Why were the disciples so much disturbed? (They per- 
haps feared that her eries would attract attention to 
themselves, and perhaos expose them to reproach or 
persecution.) 

24. What answer did he give them ? 

What was implied in this ? (I am not sent principally, 
or in the first place, &c. Our Saviour's ministry was 
confined almost entirely to the Jews, and the restric- 
tion of the first offer of the Gospel to them was not 
removed until the time of our Lord's ascension, when 
he sent his disciples forth into all the world.) 

W T hat is meant by, the lost sheep of the house of Israel ? 

25. What did the woman now do ? 

What is meant by, icor&hijyed him ? 

26. What did Jesus say to her ? 

What is the meaning of this proverb ? (The Jews called 
the Gentiles dogs because of their ignorance, idolatry, 
and impurity, and our Lord uses the word according 
to the common speech of that nation. The meaning 
is, the blessings of the Gospel are specially designed 
for the Jewish nation, not for foreigners.) 

Why did our Lord seem to rebuff her? 

What is the meaning of meet ? 

What is meant by, children's bread ? 



102 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 23. 

27. How did the woman answer him ? 

What did she exhibit in this answer ? 
What are we taught in reference to the love of a mother 
in this example? 

28. What did Jesus say to her ? 
What occurred to the daughter? 

What is meant by, great is thy faith ? 
What by, was made whole ? 

29. Where did Jesus go from thence ? 

What did he do ? 

What is meant hj, sat down there ? 

30. Who came to him? 

Whom did they bring with them ? 
What did they do with them ? 
What was done for them ? 

What is meant by, they cast them down at Jesus' feet ? 

31. What was the effect of these miracles? 
What did they behold ? 

What did they do? 

What is meant by, they glorified the God of Israel f 

82. Whom did Jesus call to him ? 
What did lie say to them ? 

Does this mean that the multitude had been with him 
three days entirely without food ? 

33. What did the disciples say to him ? 

34. What question did our Lord ask of 
them ? 

What was their answer ? 

35. What command did he give? 



Oh. 16.] QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW, 103 

36. What did he then do? 
What did the disciples do ? 

37. How far were the wants of the multi- 
tude supplied ? 

How much broken meat was taken up ? 

What is meant by, broken meat ? 

Can any idea be formed of the size of the basket '? (The 
same word is used, when St. Paul is said to have been 
let down from the wall in a basket, Acts ix, 25. It 
must, therefore, have been of a large capacity.) 

38. How many partook at this time ? 

39. What did he now do ? 
How, and whither did he go ? 

Where was Jiagdala t (It was a city, and probably a 
territory also, on the east side of the Sea of Galilee, 
and of the Jordan.) 



LESSOX XXIV. 

THE PHARISEES AND SADDUCEES REBUKED _- 
CHRIST FORESHOWETH HIS DEATH. 

Chapter xvl, 1-28. 

1. Who came to him ? 

For what purpose did they come ? 

What did they desire ? 

What is here meant by, tempting ? 

What by, a sign from heaven ? (A miracle in proof of his 
being sent from God. } 



104: QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Leg. 24: 

2. How did he answer them ? 

3. To what other sign of the weather does 
he refer ? 

How does he apply these illustrations ? 

What is the meaning of oar Lord's answer ? (If they 
would pay the same careful attention to the predic- 
tions of the prophets compared with the character and 
miracles of Christ, which it had been necessary to ex- 
ercise in regard to the weather, in order to learn that 
redness of the sky in the evening indicated pleasant 
weather, while in the morning it foretokened rain, they 
would be fully convinced that his teachings were di- 
vine.) 

What is meant by, the face of the ski/ ? 

What by, the signs of the times ? 

4. What does he further say of them? 
What sign only should be given? 
What did lie then do ? 

What is meant by, the sign of the Prophet Jonas ? 

5. Where did the disciples now come ? 
What had they forgotten ? 

What is meant by, the other side ? (See Chap, xv, 39.) 
W T hat by, forgotten to take bread ? 

How were Jesus and the disciples supported during their 
labors in preaching the Gospel? (Luke viii, 3.) 

6. What did Jesus say to them ? 

What is implied in this caution? (That they should be- 
ware of their doctrine.) 

7. What did the disciples do ? 
What did they say ? 

What is meant by, reasoned among themselves ? 
Why did they think he referred to their act of forgetful- 
ness ? 



Cii. 16.] QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 105 

8. Who knew their thoughts ? 
What did he say to them ? 

How did this reasoning exhibit their lack of faith? 

What is meant by, Why reason ye among yourselves, 
because ye have brought no bread ? ^That is, why do 
ye assign such a reason for my admonition.) 

9. What miracle does he call to their re- 
membrance ? 

10. Of what other does he remind them? 

What is the application of these miracles to the subject 
of their conversation ? (Since I can so easily supply 
the lack of provisions, how can you think I refer to 
this matter, when I warn you against the leaven of the 
Pharisees.) 

11. What question does he ask of them ? 

12. What did they now understand? 

How may we be injured by hearing false doctrine ? 

13. Where did Jesus now come ? 
What did he ask his disciples ? 

Where was Cesarea Philippi, and what can you tell con- 
cerning it ? (Bible Scholar's Manual, page 95.) 
Why does he call himself the Son of Man ? 

14. What did they answer? 

Why should they think him to be John the Baptist, now 

that he was beheaded *? 
Whom did they mean by Ellas ? 
Whom by Jeremias ? 
Whom by one of the prophets? 

15. What did he again ask them ? 

16. How did Simon Peter answer him ? 

What is meant by, thou art the Christ ? (The promised 

Messiah.) 
What by, the Son of the living God ? 



106 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 24. 

17. What did Jesus say to liiin in an- 
swer ? 

What is meant by, Bar-jona f (The son of Jona.) 
What by, flesh and blood hath not revealed this unto thee ? 
In what way had God revealed this truth to Peter ? 

18. What further did he say to him ? 

What is the meaning of this ? (Thou art Peter, which 
means a roek. On this rock, that is, myself, or the 
truth which thou hast by divine grace confessed, I 
will build my Church.) 

Who is the true foundation of the Church? (1 Cor. 
iii, 11.) 

What is Christ's Church ? 

What is meant by, the gates of hell shall not prevail against 
it? 

19. What would he give to him? 
What power should he have ? 

What is here meant by, the kingdom of heaven t (The 
Gospel dispensation.) 

What by, the keys ? (A figurative expression signifying 
that Peter should be the first publicly to open the 
gates of this dispensation, as he did on the day of 
Pentecost, and to the Gentile Cornelius.) 

What is signified by the power to bind and to loose? 
(The authority to exercise Church discipline. The 
apostles abolished and confirmed previous usages, for- 
bidding circumcision and allowing purification to Paul, 
under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.) 

20. What charge did he enjoin upon his 
disciples ? 

21. What did he begin to show them from 
this time ? 

What is meant by, show his disciples ? 
How did Jesus know this t 



Ch. 16.] QUESTIONS OX MATTHEW. 107 

Could he have avoided it ? 
Why did he thus suffer ? 
How should this affect us ? 

22. What did Peter do ? 
What did he say to him ? 

What is meant by, took him? (Drew him aside, or took 
him by the hand.) 

What by, began to rebuke him ? (To chide and remon- 
strate with him.) 

What by, this shall not he unto thee ? (Rather, may not 
this happen unto thee.) 

"What idea does this verse give of the character of Peter V 

23. What answer did he make Peter ? 

What did he mean by calling him Satan ? (The term 

means, adversary or obstructor.) 
What by, thou art an offense? (A stumbling-block, an 

impediment.) 
What by, thou savorest not the things thxrfbeof God? (Thou 

dost not relish or approve the divine plan, but art 

looking for the gratification of a worldly ambition.) 

24-. What did Jesus then say to his disci- 
ples V 

What is here meant by, come after me? (Follow me, be 

my disciple.) 
What by, denying himself and taking up his cross ? 

25. What does he further say in reference- 
to this ? 

What is it to lose one's life for Christ's sake ? 
What is the meaning of this ? 
Have any done thus ? 

2G. What solemn question does he ask ? 
In what other form does he put it ? 

What is it to lose a soul ? 

Why would the gain of the world be no compensation? 



108 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 25. 

Can you think of anything of sufficient value, that could 

be given in exchange for the soul ? 
How may the soul be saved ? 
Have you secured this salvation? 
In what way do many lose the soul ? 

27. Who, did lie say, should come ? 
How should he come ? 

What would he then do ? 

What is meant by, the glory of his Father ? 

What by, with his angels ? 

What is the meaning of reward here ? 

What of, according to his works ? 

Can we form an idea, then, what our judgment would 

be? 
What great day is referred to in this verse ? 

28. What did he then say ? 

What is meant by, shall not taste of death ? 

What by, till they see the Son of Man coming in his 
kingdom ? (The open establishment and extension of 
his kingdom. At this time Jesus had not publicly an- 
nounced his Messiahship. Others think he refers to 
the sublime scene of the transfiguration, which took 
place in a week after this.) 



LESSON XXV. 

THE TRANSFIGURATION. 
Chapter xvii,^l»2T. 

1. Whom did Jesus take with him ? 
Where did he go ? 



Ch. 17. J QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 109 

How long after the preceding events does Luke say the 
transfiguration happened ? (Luke ix, 28.) 

How do you reconcile the two accounts ? (He includes 
the day from which the reckoning was made and the 
day on which the event happened, while Matthew only 
mentions the intervening days.) 

Why were three, and only three of the apostles taken on 
this occasion ? (Three witnesses were all that the 
law required to substantiate a fact, and more might 
have occasioned confusion upon this sublime and solemn 
occasion.) 

What mountain is this supposed to have been ? (Mount 
Tabor.) 

What is meant by, a jxirt? 

On what other occasions were these three disciples se- 
lected ? 

2. What then occurred ? 

What is said of his face and of his rai- 
ment ? 

What is meant by. was transfigured ? 
What by, his face did shine as the sun ? 
What by, his raiment icas white as the light? 

3. Who appeared unto them ? 
How were they engaged ? 

What is meant by, appeared unto them ? 

Who were Moses and Elias ? 

Can you give any account of their deaths ? 

How could they now appear ? 

What proof does this aiford of a resurrection? 

4. What did Peter say to Jesus ? 

What did he mean by the expression, it is good for us to 

he here ? 
What are tabernacles? 
Why did he propose to have these ? 

5. What occurred while he was speaking? 



110 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 25, 

"What came out of the cloud ? 
"What did the voice say ? 

What is meant by, a bright cloud overshadoived them ? (The 
Shekinah, or cloud of glory, in which God often ap- 
peared to the Jews, was spread or diffused over thern.) 

What is implied in the words, hear ye him ? (It was a 
divine announcement of the authority of Christ. Ye 
have heretofore obeyed Moses and the prophets, but 
now ye are to obey him who is my Son. ) 

6. How were the disciples affected ? 

Why should this voice so overwhelm them ? 
Why do men dread the presence of God ? 
Shall we ever hear him speak ? 

7. What did Jesus do to them ? 
What did he say ? 

8. What did they observe when they lifted 
up their eyes ? 

9. As they came down what did Jesus en- 
join upon them ? 

Until what event had happened ? 

Why did he desire them to keep this great event a se- 
cret? 
Why should it be told after his resurrection ? 

10. What question did his disciples ask 
him ? 

Why did they ask this question? (They had become 
satisfied that he was the Messiah, and they knew not 
how to reconcile this with the general expectation 
that Elijah must first arise from the dead to precede 

Christ.) 

11. How did Jesus answer them ? 

What is meant by, restore all things? 



17.] QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. Ill 

12. What further does he say in reference 
to Elias ? 

"What of the Son of Man? 

"What did lie mean by the expression, and they knew him 

not ? 
What by, they have done unto him whatsoever they listed? 
Did our Lord suffer of them ? 

13. What did the disciples now under- 
stand ? 

How did this answer of Jesus satisfy their inquiry ? 

14. TThat happened when they came to the 
multitude ? 

15. What did the man say? 
How did his disease afflict him ? 

What is a lunatic ? 

What is meant by, sore vexed ? 

16. To whom had he previously brought 
him ? 

'What did he say of them ? 

17. What did Jesus say ? 

What did he command the man to do? 

To whom are the words of the verse addressed ? 
What is the meaning of the verse ? 

18. What did Jesus then do? 
What was the final result ? 

What is meant by, rebuked ? 

Was it a spirit or a disease that departed out of him? 

19. What question did the disciples now 
ask him ? 



112 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 25. 

20. What did Jesus say was the cause? 
What does he say of the power of faith ? 

What is meant by, unbelief? 

What by, faith as a grain of mustard-seed ? 

What is signified by the removing of a mountain ? 

What is meant by, nothing shall be impossible unto you ? 

(Nothing required in the discharge of your office.) 
What should you think to be the general application of 

the teaching of this verse ? 

21. What does he say in reference to the 
case of healing? 

What is the meaning of this ? 
What is meant by, this kind? 

22. Where did they now abide ? 
What did Jesus say to them ? 

What is meant by, be betrayed into the hands of men'? 

23. What should they do to him ? 
What should then occur? 

How were the disciples affected ? 

24. What happened when they reached 
Capernaum ? 

What question did they ask him ? 

Who are meant by, they that received tribute money ? 

What tribute was this probably? (The sacred tribute 
of a half shekel, which every male Jew above twenty 
years of age paid for the service of the temple.) 

25. What did he answer ? 

What did Jesus do when he came into the 

house ? 
What question did he ask Peter? 

What is meant by, prevented him ? (Anticipated him, 
that is, Jesus spake first.) 



Ch. 18.] QUESTIONS OX MATTHEW. 113 

What is implied in the questions he asks ? (If earthly- 
kings do not receive tribute from their children, then 
am I, the Son of God, excused by their custom from 
this tax, as it is a tribute for the service of my Father, 

amounting to a solemn assumption of divinity.) 

26. What answer did Peter give ? 
What did our Lord then say ? 

27. What did he bid him do? 
What should be found in the fish ? 
What should be done with it? 

What is the meaning of Jest we should ojrend them ? (Lest 
they should esteem us unfaithful and disobedient to 
the Mosaic requirements.) 

What rendered this an undoubted miracle ? 

Who only could work such a miracle ? 



LESSOX XXYI. 

THE DISCIPLES IXSTRLXTED BY CHRIST. 
Chapter xviii, 1-20, 

1. Who came to Jesus at this time ? 
What question did they ask him ? 

What time is here referred to '? (Immediately after the 
events related at the close of the preceding chapter.) 

What is here meant by, the kingdom of heaven? 

What were the ideas of the disciples in reference to 
Christ's kingdom ? 

2. Whom did Jesus call to him ? 
What did he do with the child ? 

o. What did he then say to them ? 
8 



114 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Leg. 26. 

What is meant by, converted ? 

In what respect were they to become as little children f 
What is meant by, shall not enter into the kingdom of 
heaven ? 

4. How does our Lord then directly answer 
the question of the disciples ? 

What is meant by, is greatest in the kingdom of heaven ? 

5. What does he say in reference to receiv- 
ing one little child ? 

Who is meant by, one such little child ? 
May it also refer literally to little children ? 
What is meant by, receiving them in Christ's name t 
What is the meaning of, receiveth me ? 

6. What is said in reference to the person 
who should offend one of these ? 

What is meant by, offend ? (Give them an occasion to 

fall into sin.) 
Is it a fearful sin to entice a child of God away from his 

duty ? 
What is meant by the expression, it were better for him if 

a millstone were hanged about his neck, &o. ? 

7. What does our Lord pronounce ? 
What further does he say upon the subject? 

What are here meant by, offenses t (Occasions of sin.) 
What is implied in the expression, woe unto the world ? 

(It is an expression of sorrow and concern.) 
What is meant by, it must needs be that offenses come ? 
What is implied in the words, woe to that man by whom the 

offense cometh 1 

8. 9. What should be done if the hand and 
foot offend ? 

What reason is given for this ? 



GK 18.1 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEWS 115 

What is said in reference to the eye ? 

What is meant by, the hand or foot offending ? (A be- 
setting sin that seems to cleave as closely and become 
as much a part of us as our hand or foot.) 

What is the meaning then of the verses ? (We are to 
cut off all occasions that may betray us into sin, and 
to mortify our darling passions, though as dear to us 
as our right eye.) 

What is meant by, halt or maimed ? 

What by, being cast into everlasting fire f 

What important lesson ought we to derive from this scrip- 
ture ? 

10. What further direction is given in ref- 
erence to Christ's little ones ? 

What does he say of their angels ? 

What is the meaning of, take heed ? 

What of, despising one of these little ones ? 

What of, their angels do always behold the face of my 
Father ? (Their spirits when released from the body 
are admitted to the immediate presence of God for- 
ever.) 

Do you see here any proof of the immortality of the hu- 
man soul? 

Are we not here presented with powerful motives to labor 
for the salvation of the youDgV 

Does this passage of scripture give any real countenance 
to the superstitious idea of special guardian angels ? 

11. For what purpose had the Son of Man 
come ? 

What is meant by, that which was lost ? 

12. 13. Bepeat the beautiful parable of the 
lost sheep ? 

What is meant by, hoic think ye? 

14. How does he apply the parable"? 



116 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 26. 

"What is meant by, it is not the will of your Father ? 
What by, that one of these little ones should perish t 

15. What should be done when a brother 
trespasses ? 

What is said if he hear the message ? 

Who is meant by, thy brother? 
What is meant by, trespass? 
What by, if he shall hear thee ? 
What by, thou hast gained thy brother ? 

16. What should be clone if he do not 
hear ? 

What is meant by, every word may be established? 

17. If this fails, what is to be done ? 
What after this ? 

What is meant by, the Church ? 

What by, a heathen man and a publican ? (Let him be put 
out of the Church, and, be avoided as the Jews avoided 
the heathen, and the Roman tax-gatherers.) 

18. What does he say of the authority of 
the Church ? 

What is the meaning of this ? (This is addressed to the 
apostles who were inspired of the Holy Ghost, and it 
means that God will ratify the decisions which they 
should make in organizing and disciplining the early 
Church.) 

What is meant by, to bind ? 

What by, loose on earth ? 

19. What encouragement does he give to 
united prayer ? 

What is meant by, if two of you shall agree on earth ? 
What by, as touching anything ? 



Ch. 18.] QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 117 

What by, it shall be done for them ? 

Why does our Lord thus encourage social prayer ? 

20. What does he say in reference to meet- 
ing for religious purposes ? 

What is meant by, gathered together in my name ? 

What by, there am I in the midst of them? 

What should we learn from the last two verses ? 



LESSON XXVII. 

FORGIVENESS AND BROTHERLY LOVE. 
Chapter xviii, 21-35. 

21. What question did Peter ask our Lord ? 

What is here meant by, sin against me ? 
What is denoted by the words, seven times? (It is a He- 
brew phrase denoting very often.) 

22. How did Jesus answer him ? 

What is implied in this answer ? (Not only that thou 
art to forgive him often but always, seventy times seven 
in the Hebrew phrase, meaning an indefinite number 
of times — always.) 

23. To what does he say the kingdom of 
heaven is likened ? 

What is meant by, the kingdom of heaven is likened? (The 

manner of God's dealing with men is after this wise.) 
What by, would take account of his servants? 

24. Who was first brought to him ? 

How much was a talent ? 

25. How could this man pay ? 



118 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 27. 

What did his Lord command to be done ? 

Was it customary to sell debtors to meet the claims of 
creditors? (2 Kings iv, 1 ; Lev. xxv, 39, 47.) 

26. What did the servant do ? 
What did he say ? 

What is here meant by, worshiped him ? 
What by, have patience with me ? 

27. How was the Lord affected by this ? 
What did he do ? 

What is meant by, loosed him ? 

28. Whom did this servant find as he went 
out? 

What did he do to him ? 
What did he say ? 

What was the value of a hundred pence ? (About fifteen 
dollars.) 

29. What did his fellow servant do ? 
What did he say to him? 

30. Did he yield to these entreaties ? 
What did he do with him ? 

31. What did his fellow servants do when 
they saw this ? 

32. What did the Lord do ? 
What did he say to him ? 

33. What question did he ask him ? 

34. How was the Lord affected ? 
What did he do with him ? 

Who are meant by tormentors ? 

35. How does Jesus apply this parable ? 

What is meant by, from your hearts ? 



Ch. 10.] QUESTIONS OX MATTHEW. 119 

In what sense do we owe God ? 

How are sinners like the servant that " had not to pay?" 

How is this a reason for our forgiving others? 

How should you suppose from this parable, God regards 

an unforgiving spirit ? 
Have you reason to believe that God has forgiven your 

sins ? 
If you have not, how may you secure this blessing ? 
Ought you not to seek it notr ? 



LESSON XXVIIL 

LITTLE CHILDREN BLESSED — THE RICH YOUNG 
MAN WHO CAME TO JESUS. 

Chapter xix, 1-30. 

1. Where did Jesus now go ? 
Whither did he come ? 

What sayings are referred to in this verse ? 

2. Who followed him ? 
What did he do for them? 

3. Who now came to him ? 
For what purpose ? 

What question did they ask him ? 

What is the meaning of, tempting him ? 
What is meant by, is it lawful ? 

4*- 6. What answer did he give them ? 

What should you think is the import of our Lord's an- 
swer? 



120 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 28. 

7- What other question did they propose ? 

Where is this recorded? (Deut. xxiv, 1.) 

8. How did our Lord answer this ques- 
tion ? 

What is the meaning of this ? (On account of the per- 
verseness of the Jews, and to prevent worse conse- 
quences, Moses had permitted or tolerated it, but this 
was contrary to the original law.) 

9. How does our Lord restate the law ? 

10. What do the disciples say to this ? 

What does this mean ? (Such had been their habit of 
considering it right to turn away wives for small 
causes, that they now esteemed Christ's strict law as 
burdensome.) 

11. What does Jesus answer? 

What is the force of this ? (All men would not think it 
inexpedient to marry, and it would not be well for 
them to live singly.) 

12. What is the meaning of this verse ? 

(That it is sometimes commendable where the cause of 
Christ seems to demand it, and providence indicates 
its expediency, to live singly in order to promote the 
glory of God.) 

13. Who were brought unto him ? 
For what purpose? 

What did the disciples do ? 

What reason is there for supposing that these were very 

young children ? 
Why did they wish to have Jesus put his hands upon 

them ? 
What lesson may parents learn from this ? 
How may we come and secure the blessing of Christ? 



Ch. 1&3 QUESTION? OX MATTHEW. 121 

What is meant by, rebuked them? 

Why should the disciples have been disturbed by this ? 

14. What did Jesus say to them? 

What is meant by, suffer little children ? 
What by, forbid them not to come unto me t 
What by, of such is the kingdom of heaven ? 

15. What did he then do? 

What was implied by his laying his hands on them ? 

16. How did one coming to him, address 
him ? $ 

What is here meant by, what good thing shall I do? 
What is meant by, eternal life t 

17. What did Jesus ask him? 
Who did he say alone was good ? 
What direction did he give him ? 

What is meant by, There is none good but one/ 
Does our Lord mean to say that he was not Gcd? 
What seems to be his object in the question? 
What is meant by, enter into life 1 

What commandments are here referred to? 

18. 19. What did the young man ask? 
What commandments did our Lord repeat? 

Are these all the command, nents ? 

Why were these mentioned? (These are the injunctions 

relating to our duty to our fellow-men. Of his duty 

to God he afterward instructs him.) 

20. What did the young man say ? 
What question did he ask ? 

21. What did Jesus say to him ? 

What is the meaning of, be perfect ? (If thou wilt fulfil 

thy whole duty.) 
Why was this severe test applied to him ? 



122 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 28. 

What was lie called to be ? 

What is meant by, Thou shalt have treasure in heaven ? 

May this command, in any sense, apply to us? 

22. How was this young man affected by 
our Lord's remarks? 

Why ? 

Why should the direction of Christ make him sorrowful ? 
Had he properly estimated the value of eternal life ? 
Have you ? 

How ought we to hold everything else in comparison with 
this ? 

23. What did Jesus say to his disciples? 

What is meant by, hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven ? 

24. How does he again express the same 
truth ? 

What is the meaning of this? (It implies an absolute 
impossibility ; yet according to the general rule of in- 
terpreting oriental proverbs, it is intended only to ex- 
press a great difficulty.) 

25. How were the disciples affected ? 
What question did they ask ? 

What amazed them? 

26. How did Jesus answer them ? 

How does this answer their question ? 

27. What did Peter say, and what question 
did he ask ? 

W r hat is the meaning of, what shall toe have f 

28. What answer did Jesus give ? 

What is meant by, in the regeneration f (In the kingdom 
of Christ — the state of moral renovation.) 

What by, ye shall sit upon twelve thrones, &c. (Ye shall 
be exalted to positions of honor and glory.) 



Ch. 20.] QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 123 

29. How does lie again present the same 
truth ? 

What is meant by, forsaking houses, &c. ? 
What hj,/ortny name's sake? 
What by, shall receive a hundredfold? 
What by, inherit everlasting life ? 

What influence should these considerations have upon 
us? 

30. What does our Lord then say ? 

What is the meaning of this ? 



LESSOX XXIX. 



PARABLE OF THE VINEYARD — THE BLIND MAN 
HEALED. 

Chapter sx 9 1-34. 

1. To whoni does our Lord liken the king- 
dom of heaven ? 

2. What agreement did he make with 
them ? 

Where did he then send them ? 

3. When did he again go out ? 
Whom did he see ? 

What o'clock was the third hour? (Nine in the morn- 
ing, as the Jewish day commenced at six o'clock.) 

What is meant by, the market-place ? (The place not only 
where the market was held, and public business trans- 
acted, but where it was customary for servants to stand 
waiting to he hired ? 



124 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 29. 

4. What did lie say to those he found ? 
What did they do ? 

5. At what other hours did he go out ? 

What o'clock would these be ? 

6. When did he again go out? 
Whom did he find ? 

What did he say to them ? 

What o'clock was the eleventh hour ? 
When did the Jewish day close ? 

7. What answer did they make him ? 
What did he then say to them ? 

8. What did the Lord say when the even 
was come ? 

9. What is said of those hired at the elev- 
enth hour ? 

10. What did the first suppose ? 
What did they receive ? 

11. What did they do when they received 
it? 

12. What did they say ? 

13. How did the lord of the vineyard an- 
swer them ? 

14. What did he further say to them ? 

15. What questions does he ask them? 

What is meant by, is thine eye evil, because lam good ? (An 

evil eye was a proverbial expression for envy. The 

meaning is, Art thou envious because I am kind and 
liberal to them.) 

16. How does our Lord apply the parable? 

What is the meaning of, the last shall be first, &c. ? 



Ch. 20.] QUESTIONS OX MATTHEW. 125 

What by, many be called bid few are chosen? (By the 
called are meant all that are invited to enjoy the offers 
and provisions of the Gospel ; by the chosen, those who 
sincerely obey the invitation, and through the grace 
of the Gospel are approved and accepted of God.) 

Are all called? 

Whose fault alone will it be if all are not chosen? 

Have you accepted this invitation? 

17. To what place did Jesus now journey? 
What did he do as he was going? 

What is meant by, apart ? 

18. What did he say to them? 

Whom did he mean by the Son of Man ? 

How did he know that this would happen to him? 

19. What further would they do to hiui? 
What would happen on the third day? 

Who are here meant by the Gentiles ? (The Eoman offi- 
cers and soldiers.) 

If Jesus knew this would happen to him, why did he go 
to Jerusalem ? 

What is meant by, shall rise again ? 

20. Who now came to him? 
What did she do and wish ? 

What were the names of these children ? (Mark x, 35.) 
What was the name of their mother ? (Salome.) 

21. What did Jesus say to her? 
What request did she make? 

What is meant by, in thy kingdom ? 

22. What did Jesus say ? 

What questions did he ask them ? 
What answer did they give ? 

What is meant by, ye know not what ye ask ? 



126 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 29. 

What by, are ye able to drink, of the cup, &c. ? (A cup is 
a symbol of affliction. Are ye able to drink of the 
same measure of affliction ?) 

What of, and be baptized iirith the baptism t (Baptism would 
signify figuratively, an overwhelming tribulation. Are 
ye able to undergo the severest persecution and even 
death ?) 

When the time of trial came, were these disciples as strong 
as they supposed ? (" They all forsook him and fled.") 

What may we learn from this ? 

23. What does our Lord then say to them ? 
What in reference to sitting upon his right 

hand ? 

In what sense was this assurance of Christ fulfilled? 
(Acts xii, 1, 2; v, 21, 40; Rev. i. 9.) 

Whit is meant by, is not mine to give ? (It means that he 
would only bestow it upon those entitled to it, in ac- 
cordance with the will of God.) 

What by, for whom it xoas prepared of my Father ? (Those 
that meet and obey the divine requirements.) 

24. When the ten heard it, how were they 
affected ? 

Who are meant by the ten ? 

Why was their indignation excited ? 

25. What did Jesus say to them ? 

What is the meaning of this verse ? 

26. What did he say of them ? 

What is here the meaning of minister ? 

27. What further direction did he give? 

28. How did he enforce this truth ? 

What was the application of this to the previous remark ? 



Cii. 21.1 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 127 

29. Who accompanied them from Jericho ? 

Where was this city? 

30. Whom did they meet ? 
What did the blind men do ? 

Why did they style him the son of Dctmd? 
How did they know anything about him ? 

31. What did the multitude do ? 
What course did they take ? 

32. What did Jesus do and say ? 

33. What did they answer ? 

34. How was our Lord affected ? 
What did he do ? 

What was the result ? 

What lesson may we learn from this incident? 



LESSOX XXX. 

CHRIST'S ENTRANCE INTO JERUSALEM. 
Chapter xxi, 1-22. 

1. To w T hat city did they approach ? 
What village did they reach ? 
Upon what mount was this ? 
Whom did Jesus send forth ? 

Where was Bethpage ? (It was a small yillage situated 
at the foot of the Mount of Oliyes, between Bethany 
and Jerusalem.) 



128 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 30. 

What can you say about the situation of the Mount of 
Olives ? (The Mount of Olives, or Olivet, was so called 
from the abundance of olive-trees that grew upon it. 
It lay upon the east of Jerusalem, a short distance 
from the city, separated by the valley of Jehoshaphat. 
It was about a mile in length, and from its summit 
almost every part of the city could be seen.) 

2. What direction did he give these disci- 
ples ? 

3. What should he said if any one address- 
ed them ? 

What would be the result ? 

How did our Lord know that they would find these things 

thus ? 
What is meant by, the Lord hath need of him ? 

4. 5. What was fulfilled by this ? 
What was this prophecy ? 

Where is this prophecy recorded ? (Zech. ix, 9.) 

To what is reference had by the title daughter of Sion f 

(Jerusalem. This poetical manner of personifying 

cities and countries was common among the prophets.) 
Who is meant by, thy king ? 
"What by, sitting upon an ass, and a colt, &c. ? (It should 

read sitting upon an ass, even a colt, the foal of an 

ass.) 

6. What did the disciples do ? 

7. What did they bring upon their return ? 
How did they cover them ? 

What did they then do ? 

Why did they put their clothes upon them ? 

8. What did the multitude do ? 

What was signified by their spreading their garments 
and cutting down branches? 



Ch. 21.: QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 129 

What garments are referred to here ? (The upper or ilow- 
ing robes.) 

9. What did the multitudes do ? 
What benediction did they pronounce ? 

What is the meaning of hosanna ? (It is a Hebrew word 
denoting, save I beseech thee, and is equivalent to the 
expression, God save the king.) 

Whom did the people declare Christ to be, in these shouts 
of praise ? 

What is the meaning of, in the highest ? 

10. What happened when he came into 
Jerusalem ? 

What is meant by, all the city was moved ? 

11. What did the multitudes answer? 

Why did they style him the jyrophet of Nazareth ? 

12. Whither did Jesus go ? 
TThat did he do there ? 

What part of the temple was this ? (The outer court, 
called the court of the Gentiles. A cattle-market had 
been established here for the purpose of supplying 
these with sacrifices who came from a distance.) 

Who are meant by, the money-changers? (Persons who 
furnished for_ a premium, Jews coming from foreign 
parts, with the current money of Judea for that of 
their own countries, and who changed larger pieces of 
money for smaUer.) 

13. What did he say to them? 

Where is this written? (Isa. hi, 7 ; Jer. vii, 10, 11.) 
What is meant by, ye have made it a den of thieves ? 

li. Who came to him in the temple ? 
What did he do for them ? 
15. What did the chief priests and scribes 
behold ? 

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130 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 30. 

How were they affected ? 

Why should these things displease the chief-priests and 
scribes ? 

16. What did they ask him? 
What answer did Jesus give them ? 

Where is this Scripture found ? (Psa. viii, 2.) 
How did this Scripture justify the occurrence which dis- 
pleased the priests ? 

17. Where did he go upon this? 
For what purpose ? 

Why did he not lodge in Jerusalem? (To avoid the 

malice of the priests who might seek secretly to take 

his life.) 
Where was Bethany? (A small town upon the opposite 

side of the Mount of Olives, about two miles from 

Jerusalem.) 
What family, dear to our Saviour, resided here ? 

18. What did he do in the morning? 
On what account did he suffer ? 

19. What did he see in the way ? 
What did he find upon it ? 
What did he say to it ? 

What happened to the tree ? 

What was intended by this miracle ? (It was a symbolic 
action representing the state of the Jews, who bore no 
fruits of righteousness, and would therefore, soon be 
cut off in the divine displeasure.) 

20. How were the disciples affected ? 
What did they say ? 

21. What did Jesus say to them? 

What is meant by, if ye have faith and doubt not ? 



Ch. 21.] QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 131 

What by, their being able to remove mountains? (Re- 
moving a mountain is an eastern phrase for performing- 
a difficult task. Our Saviour's discourse, in verses 
21 aDd 22, is addressed to his immediate disciples, 
and the meaning is, that if they possessed an unshaken 
faith, they would be enabled to perform the most ar- 
duous labors, and even work miracles, in the discharge 
of their apostolical office.) 

22. What general truth does he then an- 
nounce ? 

What is meant by, all things here ? 

What by believing ? 

What by, ye shall receive ? 

What lesson can we learn from this ? 



LESSON XXXI. 

PARABLES OF THE TWO SONS, AND THE WICKED 
HUSBAXD3IEX. 

Chapter xxi, 23-46. 

23. When he entered the temple who came 
to him ? 

What questions did he ask them ? 

Who are meant by, the elders of the people ? 
To what did they have reference in the words these 
things ? 

24. How did Jesus answer them ? 

25. What was the question that Jesus asked 
them ? 



132 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 31. 

How did they reason among themselves ? 

What is here meant by the baptism of John ? (The whole 
doctrine and ministry of John, and the force of the 
question is, did he receive his commission from God 
or men ? 

Why would they be troubled if Jesus should ask them, 
why they did not believe him ? (Because he had con- 
firmed the Messiahship of Christ.) 

26.. How further did they reason about it ? 

What is here meant by, hold John ? 

In what respect did they fear the people ? 

27. How did they answer him ? 

What answer did he give to their ques- 
tion ? 

How did their answer relieve our Lord from any obliga- 
tion to answer the question they asked ? 

28. By what parable does he proceed to il- 
lustrate the matter ? 

What did he say to the first son ? 

What is signified by the expression, what think ye ? 

29. What answer did the first son give ? 
What did he afterward do ? 

Whose conduct did our Lord intend to represent by this 

son? 
What was wrong and what was right in their conduct ? 
Who may be represented by this class now ? 

80. To whom did the man then come ? 
What answer did he receive ? 
What was the result ? 

What is meant by, smd likewise? 

Who were represented by the second son? 



Ch. 21.] QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 133 

Who may now be considered to be in this class ? 
Does the case of either son represent your course ? 

31. "What question did Jesus then ask 
them? 

How did they answer him ? 

How did he then apply the parable ? 

In what respect was the conduct of the first preferable 

to the second ? 
Who are meant by, the publicans and harlots ? (Persons 

considered by the Jews the most depraved and wicked.) 
What is meant by, their going into the kingdom of God ? 
How was this fact illustrated by the parable just given ? 

32. What does our Lord say of John ? 
How had they received him '? 

Who had believed in him ? 

What, does he say, had been their course? 

What is meant by, in the way of righteousness ? 

33. How did he call their attention to 
another illustration ? 

Of whom did he proceed to give an ac- 
count ? 
What had he done to his vineyard ? 
In whose hands had he placed it ? 
W hither did he then go ? 

What is meant by, digged a icine-press t 
"What was the object of the tower? 

34. At fruit-time what did he do ? 
For what purpose did he send them ? 

35. What did the husbandmen do to the 
servants ? 

36. Whom did he then send ? 



134 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 31. 

What was the fate of these ? 

37. Whom did he send last of all ? 
What did he say ? 

What is meant by, reverence here ? 

38. What did they say when they saw the 

Son? 

What is meant by, heir? 

39. What did they then do? 

40. What question does our Lord then ask 
them? 

41. How did they answer him ? 

What is here meant by, miserably destroy ? 

Who is represented in this parable by the householder ? 

What by, his vineyard ? 

What by, the attention he had shown it in making a 

hedge, a wine-press, and a tower? 
Who are meant by, the husbandmen ? 
What by, the fruit he had a right to expect ? 
Who are represented by his servants ? 
How had these been treated ? 
Who by his son ? 

Can the parable, in anywise, be applied to our times ? 
How is the Son of God now received ? 
What must be the result of his rejection ? 

42. To what scripture did he call their 
attention ? 

Where is this written ? (Psa. cxviii, 22.) 

What is the meaning of this scripture. (This despised 

and rejected Son of God, by the Jewish rulers, shall 

yet become the Head of the Church.) 
Why is Christ called a corner-stone ? 
What is meant by, this is the Lord's doing ? 
What by, it is marvelous in our eyes ? 



Ch. 22.] QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 135 

43. What solemn assurance does he then 
make to them ? 

What is here meant by, the kingdom of God f (The priv- 
ilege of being the peculiar and exclusive Church of 
God.) 

What is meant by, given to a nation bringing forth the 
fruits thereof? (Given to the Gentiles, who shall re- 
ceive it obediently and bring forth the fruits of right- 
eousness.) 

44. How further did he apply the parable ? 

To whom is reference had by the term, this stone ? 

45. What did the chief priests and Phari- 
sees now perceive? 

46. What did they seek to do ? 
What restrained them? 

How did the people regard him ? 

What is meant by, sought to lay hands on him ? 
What did they fear the people would do ? 
What is here meant by a prophet ? 



LESSON XXXII. 

THE WEDDING-GARMENT. 
Chapter xxii, 1-46. 

1. How did Jesus speak to the multitude? 

What is meant by, he spake by parables ? 

2. To whom did he liken the kingdom of 
heaven ? 



136 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 32, 

3. For what purpose did he send forth his 
servants ? 

How was his invitation treated ? 

4. What did he again do? 

With what message did he send them ? 

5. How was his invitation treated? 
What did they do? 

What is meant by, they made light of it ? 

6. What did the remnant do ? 

What is meant by, the remnant? 

What is meant by, entreated them spitefully t 

7. How was the king affected by this? 
What did he do ? 

8. What did he say to his servants? 

What is meant by, were not worthy ? 

9. What did he hid them do ?* 

To what custom is allusion here made ? (14 is always 
customary among the Orientals to provide more meats 
and drinks than are necessary for the feast ; and then 
the poor who pass by, or whom the rumor of the feast 
brings to the neighborhood, are called in to consume 
what remains.) 

10. What did the servants do ? 
What was thus done for the wedding ? 

What is here meant by, bad and good ? 

11. What did the king notice as he came 
in? 

What provisions were made for the guests at ancient feasts ? 
By refusing to put on the robe, of what would the man 
be guilty ? 



Ch. 22.] QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 137 

12. How did the master of the feast address 
the man ? 

How was the man affected ? 

Why would lie be speechless under the circumstances ? 

13. What directions did the king give to 
his servants ? 

What would be his state there? 

What is here meant by, outer darkness ? 

14. How does our Lord apply the parable ? 

What is the meaning of this verse ? 

Who is referred to by the king that made this feast ? 

Who by his son ? 

WTio by his servants ? 

What is signified by the wedding-feast ? 

What by. those that were bidden refusing to come ? 

Who are meant by those gathered from the highways ? 

What is signified by the wedding-garment ? 

How large a provision of these has .been made ? 

What is meant by. a man's being without it? 

Are all chosen that obey the call ? 

Who only will be finally lost ? 

What must be the character of the woe which such will 

experience ? 
Have you on the wedding-garment ? 

15. What did the Pharisees now do? 

What is meant by, tool; counsel f 

What by, that they might entangle Mm ? 

16. Whom did they send to him? 
What did they say to him? 

Who were the Herodians f (They were the political par- 
tisans of Herod Antipas ; they favored the Romans 
and opposed the Pharisees, who considered it unlawful 
to pay taxes to the Roman Emperor.) 



138 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 32. 

What was their object in speaking so flatteringly to our 
Lord ? 

17. What question did they put to him? 

What is meant by, is it lawful ? 
Who is meant by Ocesar ? 

18. What did Jesus perceive ? 
What did he say to them ? 

How could they entangle him by this question ? 

19. What did they ask them to show him ? 
What did they bring unto him ? 

What is meant by, tribute money ? 

20. What question did he now ask them ? 

What is here meant by, image and superscription ? 

21. How did t\\Qj answer him ? 
What response did he make ? 

Can you think how this answer avoided the snare into 

which they wished him to fall ? 
What was the meaning of our Lord's answer ? 

22. How were they affected by his answer? 

Why did they marvel? 

23. Who also came to him ? 
What do they say ? 

What is meant by, say there is no resurrection ? 

24-27. What case do they present to him ? 

28. What inquiry do they make? 

29. How did Jesus answer them ? 

What is meant by, ye do err ? 
What by, not knowing the Scriptures ? 
What by, nor the power of God ? 



Ch. 22.] QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 139 

30. What does he say of the resurrection ? 

What is meant by, are as the angels of God ? 

31, 32. Of what does he further speak ? 
To what scripture does he call their atten- 
tion ? 

What does he say of God ? 

Where is this scripture written ? (Exod. iii, 6.) 
How does this scripture prove a resurrection ? 

33. How were the multitude affected by 
this ? 

Why were they so astonished ? 

3-1. What did the Pharisees hear? 
What did they do? 

What is meant by, put them to silence ? 

35. Who now addressed him ? 
What was his object? 

What is here meant by, a laicycr 1 

36. What was this question ? 

Was this question discussed among the Jews ? 

37. What answer did Jesus give him ? 

What is implied in this ? 

38. What does our Lord say of this? 

39. What is the second ? 

What is the import of this commandment ? 

40. What does our Lord say of the two ? 

What is meant by, hang all the laic and the prophets ? 

41. 42. Who were gathered together? 



140 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les.33. 

What did Jesus ask them ? 
What answer did they give him ? 

What did they mean by saying that he was the son of 
David ? 

43, 44. What other question did he ask 
them? 

What is meant by, David in spirit ? 

Where is this written ? (Psa. ex, 1.) 

What is meant by, make thine enemies thy footstool t 

45. What question does he then ask ? 

Can you answer the question our Lord asks of the Jews ? 

46. How was the question received ? 

Why could they not answer him? 

Why did they not dare to ask more questions ? 



LESSON XXXIII. 

CHRIST'S DISCOURSE TO THE MULTITUDE IN 
JERUSALEM. 

Chapter xxiii, 1-39* 

1. To whom did Jesus speak ? 

2. How did he commence his discourse ? 

What is meant by, sit in Moses' seat ? (Jewish teachers 
were accustomed to sit while they taught or expound- 
ed the law. The expression, then, is equivalent to 
saying that they were the acknowledged expounders 
of the law of Moses.) 



Ch. 23.] QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 141 

3. In what respects should the Scribes and 
Pharisees be allowed to influence them ? 

In what not ? 
Why ? 

What is implied in the words, all whatsoever t (All that 

is in accordance with the law of Moses.) 
What is meant by, for they say and do not ? 

4. What did he say they did ? 
What would they not do themselves? 

What is meant by, their binding heavy burdens upon men's 
shoulders ? (Their enforcing rigorously the oppressive 
traditions of the elders, and burdensome ceremonials.) 

What by, they will not move them with one of their fingers f 
(They will not bear the slightest of them, themselves.) 

5. What is the object of all their works? 
What do they make broad? 

What do they enlarge ? 

What are phylacteries ? (The word means preservatives. 
They were strips of parchment, used for preserving 
some sentences of the law written upon them, which 
from a literal interpretation of a passage inDeut. vi, 8, 
they thought themselves obliged to wear, especially at 
prayer, on their foreheads and on their left arm.) 

What are meant by, borders of their garments ? (Fringes, 
having their origin from the .scripture found in Deut. 
xxii, 12. The Pharisees wore larger ones than ordi- 
nary, to intimate that they esteemed themselves espe- 
cially devout.) 

6. What did our Lord say they loved? 

What are meant by, the uppermost rooms ? 

7. What other attentions do they desire ? 

What is meant by, greetings in the markets ? 
What is the meaning of Rabbi ? (Great teacher or 
master.) 



142 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. |Les. 33. 

8. What did our Lord enjoin upon them ? 
What reason did he give for it ? 

Does this mean that all titles of respect should be laid 

aside? 
What is implied in the reason given by our Lord in the 

last clause of the verse ? 

9. What further direction is given ? 
What reason is given for this ? 

What is meant by, call no man father ? (Teachers were 
called fathers, and pupils sons. Christ was the father 
and founder of their religion, and upon him only were 
they to rely.) 

How may this precept be broken at the present time ? 

10. How does he repeat this precept ? 

11. What lesson of humility does he incul- 
cate? 

What does this mean ? 

12. What does he say of the person that 
exalts himself? 

What of the humble ? 

Is this found to be true in the history of man ? 

13. How does our Lord denounce the scribes 
and Pharisees ? 

What is meant by, ye shut up the kingdom of heaven ? 
(Hinder men from entering, by precept and example.) 

14. What further charges does he bring 
against them? 

W T hat is meant by, devour widows' houses ? 

What by, for a pretence make long prayers ? 

What by, damnation ? (Condemnation, punishment.) 

15. What does he sav of their false zeal? 



Ch. 23.] QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 143 

What is meant by, compass sea and land ? 

What is a proselyte t 

What is meant by, two-fold more the child of hell ? (Make 

him worse than before, and more deserving of eternal 

punishment.) 

16. What opinions of theirs does he de- 
nounce in this verse ? 

What is meant by, blind guides ? 

What was implied in the teaching of the Scribes and 

Pharisees *? 
What is meant by, he is a debtor ? 

17. How does he reprove them for this ? 

What is the force of his argument? 

18. What did they teach about the altar? 

19. What does our Lord say of this ? 

20. How does he then state the case ? 

21. How in reference to the temple? 

Who is meant by him that dwelleth therein ? 

22. What does he say of an oath by 
heaven ? 

23. What further denunciation does he 
pronounce ? 

What is meant by, ye pay tithe of mint, and anise, and 

cummin ? 
What by, have omitted the weightier matters of the law ? 
What is here meant by, judgment ? 
What by, mercy ? 

24. What does our Lord again say of 
them ? 

What is the meaning of this expression ? 



144 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 33. 

25. How does he still further expose their 
hypocrisy ? 

What is here meant by, clean the outside of the cup and of 

the platter ? 
What by, within are full of extortion and excess ? 

26. What does he exhort them first to do ? 

What is the meaning of the verse ? (Cleanse the heart 
first, then the life will be pure.) 

27. To what does he now liken them ? 
What does he say of these sepulchres ? 

To what is allusion had here ? (To the fact that their 
sepulchres — large stone tombs or excavations in moun- 
tains — were whitewashed that they might be distinctly 
seen, lest persons touching them should become legally 
polluted.) 

In what sense were the Scribes and Pharisees like to 
these? 

28. How does our Lord apply the figure ? 

29. 30. What did they do for the prophets 
and righteous ? 

What did they say of their fathers ? 

What is the meaning of garnish ? 

What of, we would not have been partakers tcith them in the 
blood of the prophets ? 

31. Of what does he say they are wit- 
nesses ? 

What is meant by, ye be loitnesses unto yourselves? 
What by, that ye are the children of them which hilled the 
prophets ? 

32. What does he exhort them to do ? 

What is meant by, fill ye up ? 



Ch. 23.] QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 145 

33. What severe denunciation does he visit 
upon them ? 

What is here the meaning of serpents and vipers ? 
What of the question, How can ye escape the damnation 
of hell ? 

34. What would he send them ? 
What should they do to them ? 

Who are here meant by, prophets, and wise men and 

Scribes ? 
Was this prophecy fulfilled ? 

35. What should come upon them ? 

What is meant by, that upon you may come ? 
Where is the account of the death of Zacharias found ? 
(2 Chron. xxiv, 19-21.) 

36. How does he repeat this denunciation ? 

What is meant by, all these things shall come upon this 

generation ? 
How long after this was Jerusalem destroyed ? (Within 

forty years.) 

37. What affecting lamentation did he now 
pronounce ? 

What is meant by, how oft would I have gathered thy ckil- 

dren ? 
What by, and ye would not ? 
In what respect is this true of every sinner ? 
What is the reason that any one is finally lost ? 

38. What does he say of them ? 

What does this mean ? 

39. What other prediction does he utter ? 

What is meant by, ye shall not see me henceforth f 
What by the last clause ? 

To what does this prediction refer ? (The future conver- 
sion of the Jews.) 

10 



146 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Lee. 34. 



LESSON XXXIV. 

DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM FORETOLD. 
Chapter xxiv 9 1-26. 

1. From what did Jesus now depart ? 
Who came to him ? 

For what purpose ? 

Wliat is meant by, the buildings of the ternple ? 

2. How did Jesus direct their attention to 
what he was about to say ? 

What prophecy did he then utter ? 

What is implied in the expression, there shall not be left 

here one stone upon another ? 
When was this prophecy fulfilled ? 

o. Where did he sit to teach ? 

What questions did his disciples ask him ? 

Do these questions refer to the same event ? (Two ques- 
tions seem to be asked by the disciples, and answered 
by our Lord ; one being used as a sign of the other — 
the destruction of the temple and the end of the 
world. The disciples speak in accordance with the 
opinion of their countrymen, that their temple and 
city would endure until the end of the world.) 

What is meant by the question, What shall be the sign of 
thy coming ? 

4. How did Jesus commence his answer ? 

What is meant by, take heed ? 

o. Who does he say would come ? 
What should they do ? 



Ch. 24.] QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 147 

For what purpose would these persons assume the name 

of Christ ? 
Was this prophecy fulfilled ? 

6. Of what should they hear ? 
How should this affect them ? 
Why should this not disturb them ? 

What is meant by, the end is not yet ? 

7. What other signs does he mention ? 

Were these things witnessed before the destruction of 
Jerusalem ? 

8. What were these things to be consider- 
ed? 

9. To what persecutions would the disciples 
be subjected? 

What is here meant by afflicted t 

What by, ye shall he hated of all nations ? 

Was this prophecy fulfilled ? 

10. What does he say many should do ? 

What is meant by, be offended f (Will desert and re- 
nounce their Christian profession.) 

11. Who should arise at this time? 
What should they do ? 

Who are meant by, false prophets ? 

12. What should abound ? 

What should be the consequence of this ? 

What is here meant by, the love of many ? (Their at- 
tachment to the Christian faith.) 
What by, icax cold ? 

13. What blessing should those receive that 
endured to the end ? 



148 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 34. 

What is here meant by, endure unto the end ? 
What by, shall be saved? 

14. Where should the Gospel be preached? 
For what purpose? 

What should then happen ? 

What is meant by, this Gospel of the kingdom ? 
What by, in all the world ? 
What by, for a witness unto all nations ? 
What by, then shall the end come f 

15. To what prediction does he refer? 

Where is this recorded? _ (Dan. xii, 11.) 

What is here meant by, the abomination of desolation ? 

(Luke xxi, 20.) 
What is here meant by, the holy place ? 

16. What should be done when this oc- 
curred ? 

Why should they flee to the mountains ? 

Did any follow this advice when Jerusalem was besieged ? 
(The Christians fled to the mountains on the further 
side of Jordan, and were saved from massacre.) 

17. What further direction does he give ? 

How were the housetops constructed ? 

What is the meaning of the direction ? (The idea is 
that they should take the speediest way of reaching 
the mountains — they should run across the housetops 
to the walls, and thus escape.) 

18. 19. How further does he illustrate the 
necessity of haste ? 

What are here meant by, his clothes t (His upper garment 
or cloak.) 

20. For what should they pray ? 

Why, that it should not be in the winter ? 
Why not on the Sabbath-day f 



Ch. 24.] QUESTIONS OX MATTHEW. 149 

21. What does he say of the tribulation of 
that time ? 

Can you give any account of the calamities attending the 
destruction of Jerusalem ? (Bib. Sch. Man., p. 92.) 

22. What farther does he say of these 
sufferings ? 

What is meant "by, except those days be shortened f 
What by, for the elect sake f (For the sake of the Chris- 
tians in Judea — the Church, the elect of God.) 

23. How does he guard them against false 
Christ* ? 

24. Who does he say should arise? 
What would they do ? 

What would be the effect of this ? 

What are meant by, great signs and wonders ? 
What is the meaning of, if it were possible ? 

25. 26. How had Christ prepared them for 
this? 

What should they, therefore, do ? 



LESSON XXXV. 

THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST FORETOLD. 
Chapter xxiv, 27-51. 

27. To what does our Lord compare the 
coming of the Son of Man ? 

What is the meaning of the figure ? 



150 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 35. 

28. What proverbial saying does he then 
utter? 

What is the meaning of this ? (That as the eagles col- 
lect wherever they find their prey, so should the Ro- 
man armies follow the call of divine vengeance. The 
standards of the Romans were topped with eagles.) 

29. What should happen immediately upon 
this? 

What is meant by, the tribulation of those days ? 
What by this reference to the sun, moon, and stars ? 

30. What should then appear in heaven ? 
Who should mourn ? 

What should they behold ? 

What is meant by, the sign of the Son of Man ? (Dan. 

vii, 13, to end.) 
Who are meant by, the tribes of the earth $ 
Why should they mourn ? 
What is meant by, his coming with power and great 

glory ? 
To what coming is reference had in this verse ? 

31. What would he do at this time ? 
What would the angels do ? 

What is meant by, with a great sound of a trumpet ? 

Who are meant by, the elect ? 

What by, the four winds? 

What by, from one end of heaven to the other t 

32. What parable does he utter in illustra- 
tion of this prophecy ? 

33. How does he apply it ? 

What is meant by, even at the doors ? 
What event is referred to ? 

34. Where should these things happen ? 



CK 24.] QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 151 

What is the meaning of this ? (The existing generation 
should not pass till the events predicted should begin 
to be fulfilled ; that is, in the destruction of Jerusalem.) 

35. How does he declare the certainty of 
these things ? 

What is meant by, shall not pass away ? 

36. What is said of the day and hour ? 

What is meant by, that day, &q. ? 

37. Like to what days should the coming 
of Christ be ? 

Who is meant by Noe ? 

38. How were men engaged in Noah's 
time ? 

39. When was their first knowledge of the 
flood? 

What other event should be like this ? 

Was this ignorance necessary, or was it voluntary in 

Noah's time? 
How are we warned of Christ's coming ? 
What preparation is necessary to meet it ? 

40. 41. How does he illustrate the sudden- 
ness of this event ? 

What is meant by, one shall be taken and the other left? 
What by, two women shall be grinding at the mill ? (Bible 
Scholars' Manual, page 178.) 

42. What duty does he enjoin upon them ? 
For what reason does he urge it ? 

What is it to tcatch? 

In what sense will the Lord come to everv one of us ? 



152 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Leg. 35. 

43. How does he illustrate the duty of 
watching ? 

What is meant by, in what watch ? 

44. What general exhortation does he give 
them? 

With what consideration does he enforce 
this ? 

What is it to be ready t 

What is meant by, in such an hour as ye think not ? 
In what respect is the day of our death like the coming 
of the Son of Man ? 

45. What question does our Lord ask ? 

What is meant by, to give them meat in due season t 

46. What does he say of such a servant ? 

47. What should be done for him ? 

48. 49. What course might an evil servant 
pursue ? 

Who may be represented by such a servant as this ? 

50. When would the Lord of that servant 
- come ? 

51. What punishment should be visited 
upon him ? 

What is meant by, appoint his portion t 

Who are hypocrites ? 

What solemn lesson should we learn from this ? 



eh. 25.] QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 153 



LESSON XXXVI 

PARABLE OF THE TEN VIRGINS AND OF THE 

SHEEP AND GOATS. 

Chapter xxv, 1-46. 

1. To whom should the kingdom of heaven 
then be likened ? 

What did these virgins do? 

What period is referred to by the word then? (The 

second coming of onr Lord.) 
Upon what Eastern custom is this parable founded? 

( Bible Scholar's Manual, page 153.) 
"Who are represented by the virgins 1 
Who by the bridegroom ? 

2. What is said of these virgins ? 

In what did the -wisdom of the wise consist? 
In what the folly of the foolish ? 

3. 4. What is said of the preparation made 
by these virgins? 

What is signified by their taking oil in their vessels ? 
Who may be said now to be represented by the wise vir- 
gins ? 
Who by the foolish ? 

5. What was done while the bridegroom 
tarried ? 

6. What was heard at midnight ? 

Of what is this an illustration? 

What would be your feelings if you should hear it sud- 
denly announced that Christ hj-d come to judge the 
world ? 



154 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 36. 

What event may come as suddenly, and is of equally 
solemn import ? 

7. What did the virgins do ? 

8. What did the foolish virgins say ? 

9. What answer did the wise give them ? 

Who find themselves in the situation of the foolish vir- 
gins ? 
Can the wise help them? 
Who only can supply their want ? 

10. What happened while they went to 
buy? 

Who only are ready to meet Christ ? 
What is here signified by the marriage ? 
When is the door shut to the sinner ? 
Why is it then justly closed ? 

When ought we to make our preparation to meet our 
Lord ? 

11. Who afterward came ? 
What did they say ? 

12r What answer was made to them ? 

What is here meant by, / know you not ? 

13. How does our Lord close the parable ? 

14. To whom does he again liken the king- 
dom of heaven ? 

What did he do before setting out ? 

15. How did he divide his goods among 
them ? 

What rule did he have in this distribution ? 
What did he then do ? 

What is meant by, every man according to Ms several 
ability ? 



Ck25.j QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 155 

16. What did the man with five talents 
do? 

What is meant by, traded with the same ? 

17. What is said of the man with two ? 

18. What was done by the man that re- 
ceived one ? 

What are represented by talents f 
Who may be considered the man with fit* talents ? 
Who the man with two '? 

Who is represented by him that received one talent? 
How are these talents to be improved ? 
Are we responsible if our talents are not so manv as 
others ? 

19. What occurs after a long time ? 

What is meant by, reckoneth with them ? 

20. What did the man who had five talents 
bring ? 

What did he say ? 

21. What answer did the Lord make to 
him ? 

What is meant by, I will make thee a ruler over many 

things ? 
What by, the joy of thy Lord ? 
Who will hear this at the final judgment ? 
How may we secure this high honor ? 

22. What did he that had received two 
talents do and say ? 

23. What answer did his Lord make to 
him ? 

What may we learn from the fact that he received 
the same commendation as the man who had gained 
five talents '? 



156 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 36. 

24, 25. What did the man with one talent 
do and say ? 

What is here meant by, a hard man ? 

What by, reaping where thou hast not sown, &c. ? 

26. How did his Lord answer him ? 

What is meant by the expression, thou knowest that I 
reap, &c. ? 

27. What does he say he ought to have 
done? 

Who are meant by the exchangers t 

What by, usury ? 

What is the meaning of the verse ? 

What may we learn in reference to the use of one talent ? 

28. What did he command to he done ? 

29. What general principle did he then 
utter? 

What is the meaning of it? (He that profitably im- 
proves his gifts shall have them increased, he that 
neglects or perverts them shall lose them.) 

30. What should be done with the unprofit- 
able servant? 

What should he the character of this pun- 
ishment ? 

31. To what event does he now refer ? 

What is meant by, the throne of his glory ? 

32. Who shall he gathered before him ? 
What would he do to them ? 

33. How shall he place them ? 

Who are meant by the sheep t 
Who by the goats ? 



Cb. 25.] QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 157 

34. What would he say to those upon his 
right hand? 

What is meant by, blessed of my Father ? 

What by, the kingdom ? 

What by, prepared from the foundation of the world? 

35, 36. What reasons does he give for this? 
37-39. What shall the righteous answer ? 

40. What answer shall the king make ? 

What is the meaning of this answer ? 

41. What shall he say to those <5n the left 
hand ? 

What is here meant by, ye cursed ? 

What by, everlasting fire f 

What by, prepared for the devil and his angels ? 

42. 43. What reason is given for this sen- 
tence ? 

44. What will they say in return? 

45. How will he answer them ? 

What is the meaning of this ? 

46. Where shall these go ? 
Where the righteous ? 

How ought we to be affected by this ? 



158 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les, 37. 



LESSON XXXVII. 

JESUS IN BETHANY — INSTITUTION OF LORD'S 
SUPPER. 

Chapter xxvi 9 1-29. 

1, 2. When our Lord finished his discourse, 

whom did he address ? 
What did he say to them ? 

What sayings are referred to in the first verse ? 

What was the feast of the passover? (Bible Scholar's 

Manual, page 148.) 
Who was signified by the paschal lamb ? 
Why was it suitable that the Saviour should be crucified 

at the Passover ? 
What is meant by, is betrayed ? 

3. Who assembled together ? 
Where did they gather ? 

4. For what purpose did they meet to- 
gether ? 

What is meant by, subtilty ? 

5. What did they say ? 

What is here meant by the feast day ? 
Why would there be likely to be an uproar on the feast- 
day? 

6. To what place did Jesus go ? 
In whose house was he ? 

Was he probably a leper at this time ? 

7. Who came to him ? 

What did she do with the ointment? 



Cii. 26.] QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 159 

What is alabaster f 

How were they accustomed to sit at meat ? 

Was such use of ointments common ? 

8. How were the disciples affected by this ? 
What did they say ? 

9. What did they suggest might have been 
done with it ? 

Do you suppose this was the real cause of indignation? 

10. What did Jesus say when he understood 
this ? 

What is meant by, she has wrought a good work upon me ? 
What was the motive of Mary in making this use of the 

ointment ? 
Is it "better to yield our wealth to the service of Christ 

than for the gratiiication of our own desires ? 

11. What does our Lord say of the poor? 
What of himself? 

What is meant by, ye have the poor always icith you f 
In what sense would Christ not be with them always ? 
In what sense is he always with them? 
How does this remark of our Lord apply to the case ? 

12. For what purpose does he say this act 
had been done ? 

What is meant by, she did it for my burial ? 

Did Mary know that Jesus was about to be put to death ? 

13. Where did he say this act should be 
told? 

What is meant by, for a memorial ? 

What may we learn of the value of a sincere act of 
gratitude exhibited toward Christ ? 

14. Who now went to the chief priests ? 

Who are meant by the twelve ? 



160 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 37. 

15. What did he say to them? 
What did they do ? 

What is meant by, covenanted ? 

What is the value of thirty pieces of silver? (About 
fifteen dollars.) 

Why could they not take Jesus without his being be- 
trayed by one of his disciples ? 

What induced Judas to perform this dreadful act ? 

16. What did he do from that time? 

What is meant by, sought opportunity t 
What by, to betray him ? 

17. What feast now occurred? 
Who came to Jesus ? 

What question did they ask him ? 

What is meant by, the feast of unleavened bread ? 
What by, prepare for thee to eat the passover ? 

18. What did he say to them ? 

Who probably was the man referred to here? (Some 

disciple of Christ in the city.) 
Was it customary to give up their rooms to strangers in 

Jerusalem during the Passover ? (During the time of 

the great feasts, all the houses in Jerusalem were open 

to receive guests.) 

19. What did the disciples do ? 
What did they make ready ? 

What is here meant by, made ready the passover t (Pro- 
cured a paschal lamb.; 

20. What happened at even ? 

21. What did he say as they eat ? 

22. How were the disciples affected ? 
What did they begin to say ? 



Ch. 26.] QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 161 

Why were the disciples sorrowful ? 

How did Jesus kuow who would betray him? 

"Why did he not expose him, and take measures to save 

himself? 
Why was it worse for one of the twelve to betray him 

than for any other person ? % 

Can Christ be betrayed now ? 

23. What answer did Jesus make ? 

To what custom is reference had here ? 

24. What does he say of the Son of Man? 
What of him by whom he is betrayed ? 
W r hat would have been good for this man ? 

What is meant by, goeth as it is written of him t 
What by, it had been good for that man if he had not been 
barn ? 

25. W T hat did Judas now say ? 
What answer did Jesus give him ? 

Why did he ask this question ? 

What is the meaning of our Lord's answer ? 

26. What did Jesus do as they were eating ? 
What did he say to them ? 

What is meant by, he blessed the bread? 

What by, this is my body f 

Did it mean that it was his real body '? 

How did this bread represent his body ? 

When was his body broken ? 

How would this act call him to remembrance? 

27. What did he then take? 
What did he do? 

What did he say ? 

What is here meant by, the cup ? 
What does the word all refer to ? 
11 









162 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 38. 

28. What did he say of the wine ? 

What is meant by, this is my blood ? 
What by, of the 'New Testament ? 
What by, which is shed for many ? 
What by, for the remission of sins t 

29. What does our Lord further say ? 

What is signified by the words, / will not drink henceforth 
of the fruit of the wine ? 



LESSON XXXVIII. 

GETHSEMANE. 
Chapter xxvi, 30-75. 



30. How did they close their passover sup- 
per ? 

Where did they then go ? 

31. What did Jesus then say to them ? 
What scripture did he refer to? 

What is meant by, all ye shall be offended ? 

Where is the scripture hore mentioned recorded ? (Zech. 

xiii, 7.) 
Who is here meant by, shepherd 1 
Who by, sheep ? 

32. What did he promise to do ? 

What is here meant by, go before you ? 
W T hen was this fulfilled ? (Mark xvi, 7.) 

33. What did Peter say to him ? 

What was there in this characteristic of Peter ? 



Oh. 26.] QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 163 

Did lie not intend to keep this pledge ? 
What may we learn from this ? 

34. What did Jesus say to him ? 

What time was referred to by the cocJc-crowing ? (The 
third of the four watches into which the Jews divided 
the night.) 

35. What did Peter then say? 
Who joined with him ? 

How can you account for their failure to keep this solemn 
affirmation '? 

36. Whither do they now come ? 
What did he say to his disciples? 

What is the meaning of the word Gethsemane ? (The 

valley of fatness.) 
Where was it situated '? 
Why was it called a garden? 

37. Whom did he take with him ? 
How was he affected ? 

Who were the two sons of Zebedee ? (James and John.) 
What is meant by, very heavy ? 
What caused this great grief? 
How should this affect us ? 

38. What did he say to them ? 
What request did he make ? 

What is meant by the expression, even unto death ? 
What by, watch with me f 

39. Where did Jesus then go ? 
What did he do ? 

What words did he use ? 

What is meant by, if it be possible t 
What by, this cup f 



164 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. Ddes. 38. 

What by, let it pass from me ? 

Do you suppose that this prayer was answered ? 

What is meant by, not as I will, but as thou wilt ? 

40. To whom did he then return ? 
How did he find them ? 

What did he say to Peter? 

41. What does he enjoin upon them ? 
What further does he say ? 

W T hat is meant by, enter not into temptation ? 
What by, the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak ? 
Was this a reason for watching and praying ? 

42. What did our Lord then do ? 
How did he pray this time ? 

What is meant by, except I drink it ? 

43. How did he again find them ? 

What is meant by, for their eyes were heavy f 

44. What did he do once more ? 

45. What did he say to his disciples when 
he returned? 

What is meant by, sleep on now and take your rest ? 
Who are meant by, sinners ? 

46. What did he then command them to 
do? 

What reason did he give for this ? 

47. What happened while he was speak- 
ing? 

Who had sent them ? 

What are meant by, staves ? 

48. What sign had Judas given ? 



Ch. 2o.j QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 165 

What is meant by, gave them a sign ? 
What by, hold him fast t 

49. What did Judas do? 

What is meant by, hail ? 

50. How did Jesus address him? 
What did the multitude then do ? 

51. What did one of our Saviour's com- 
pany do ? 

Which one was this ? (John xviii, 10.) 
What did our Lord do for the wounded man ? (Luke 
xxii, 51.) 

52. What did Jesus say to him ? 

What general principle did he then utter ? 

What is meant by this ? 

Do violent men usually come to violent ends ? 

53. What question did he ask him ? 

What was the object of this question? 

54. What further question did he ask ? 

What is the meaning of this question ? (That his death 
was not accidental, but provided for in the plan of re- 
demption, and set forth in the inspired prophecies. 
He thus comforts his disciples by showing them that 
all this was to be done by divine permission.) 

55. What did Jesus say to the multitude? 
What had he previously done ? 

Why had they not arrested him in public ? 

56. Why did he say this was done ? 
What did the disciples then do ? 

What is meant by, this was done that the Scriptures 

might be fulfilled ? 
Why did the disciples now leave him ? 



166 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 88. 

57. What was then done with Jesus ? 
Who were gathered there ? 

58. What is said of Peter? 
Where did he go ? 

What was his object? 

What is meant by, followed afar off? 
What by, to see the end ? 

59. Who sought false witness against Je- 
sus? 

For what purpose ? 

60. Did they find any ? 
What occurred at last ? 

61. What did they say? 

What did they mean by, the temple of God ? 
Had Jesus said anything like this ? 

If he had said the very thing, would it have been an act 
worthy of death ? 

62. What did the high-priest do and say ? 

63. What did Jesus do? 

What did the high-priest then say ? 

What did he mean by, Christ the Son of Ood ? 

64. How did Jesus answer ? 
What further did he say ? 

What did he mean by, thou hast said ? 
What by, sitting upon the right hand of power ? 
What by, coming in the clouds of heaven ? 

65. What did the high-priest then do and 
say? 

Why did he rend his clothes ? (Lev. xxi, 10.) 

Why did he consider the language of Jesus blasphemy ? 









Ch. 26.] QUESTIONS OX MATTHEW. 167 

66. What question did he ask ? 
What answer did they give ? 

67. What did they then do ? 

What is meant by, buffeted him ? 
What was implied in these acts ? 

68. What did they say to him ? 

69. Where was Peter at this time ? 
Who came to him? 

What did she say ? 

Why did she style him, Jesus of Galilee ? 

70. What did Peter do and say ? 

Why do you suppose he did this ? 
Of what was he guilty ? 

71. Who then met him? 
What did she say ? 

Why is he called Jesus of Nazareth ? 

72. What did Peter now do and say ? 

Of what additional sin is he now guilty ? 
What may we learn from this ? 

73. Who then came to him? 
What did they say to Peter ? 

What is meant by, thy speech bewrayeih thee f 

74 What did Peter now do ? 
What did he say ? 
What then happened ? 

What ought we to learn from Peter's fall ? 

75. What did Peter remember ? 
How was he affected ? 



168 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. S9. 



LESSON XXXIX. 

CHRIST BEFORE PILAT& 
Chapter xxvii, 1-34. 

1. What was clone in the morning ? 

What morning is referred to ? 

What is meant by, took counsel against Jesus ? 

2. What did they first do to him ? 
Whither did they lead him ? 

Why did they bring him to Pilate ? (Pilate was the Ro- 
man governor, and the Jews had no power of punish- 
ing criminals with death except under the sanction 

of the governor.) 

3. What did Judas now see ? 
How was he affected ? 
What did he do ? 

What is here meant by, condemned? 
What by, repented himself? 

4. What did he say to them ? 
What answer did they give him ? 

What did he mean by, I have betrayed the innocent blood? 
What is meant by the question they asked him ? 

o. What did he do with the silver? 
What course did he then take? 

Why did he hang himself? 

What may we learn in reference to the consequences of 

sin? 
Had the money Judas received been any comfort to him ? 



Ch. 27.] QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 169 

6. What did the priests say in reference to 
the silver ? 

Why was it not lawful ? 

What is here meant by, the treasury? 
What by, it is the price of blood t 

7. What did they do? 
What did they finally buy? 
For what purpose ? 

Why had this probably been called the potter' 's field ? 

8. What was this field afterward called ? 

Why was it called the field of blood f 
What is meant by, unto this day ? 

9. 10. What prophecy was now fulfilled ? 

Where is this prophecy found? (Zech. xi, 12, 13.) 
Why is it said to be spoken by Jeremy ? (It is thought 

that the last four chapters of the book of Zechariah 

\vere "written by Jeremiah.) 

11. Before whom did Jesus stand ? 
What did the governor ask him? 
What answer did Jesus give ? 

What governor was this ? 

W T hat did he mean by the question he asked ? 

What is meant by, thou sayest ? 

12. Who accused him ? 
How did Jesus treat this ? 

What is meant by, accused? 

13. What did Pilate then say? 

14. What is said of Jesus? 
How was the governor affected ? 

Why did this surprise him ? 



170 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Lea. 39. 

15. What was the governor accustomed to 
do at the feast? 

What is meant by, that feast ? 
What by, to release unto the people ? 

16. What notable prisoner had he ? 

What is meant by, notable 1 

17. What question did Pilate ask them? 

18. What did he know ? 

What is here meant by, for envy f (Through hatred and 
malice.) 

19. Where did he sit down? 
Who sent to him ? 

What word did she send to him ? 

What is meant by, the judgment-seat ? 

What by, that just man ? 

Whence came this impression to Pilate's wife ? 

20. What did the priests and elders per- 
suade the multitude ? 

What is meant by, destroy Jesus ? 

21. What did the governor then ask them ? 
What did they answer ? 

22. What question did Pilate then ask ? 
What answer did they give ? 

23. What did the governor then say ? 
What did they cry out ? 

How can you account for the spirit manifested by the 
multitude ? 

24. What did Pilate then see ? 
What did he do ? 



Ch. 27.] QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 171 

What did he say ? 

What did lie signify by this act ? 
What is meant by, see ye to it ? 

25. What did the people answer ? 

What is meant by this ? 

Has his blood been upon them and their children in this 
sense ? 

26. Whom did Pilate then release ? 
What did he do to Jesus ? 

For what purpose did he deliver him ? 

Why did he scourge him ? 

What is meant by, he delivered him to be crucified ? 

27. What did the soldiers do? 
Who did they gather ? 

What is meant by, the common hall ? 
What by, the v:hole band ? 

28. What did they do to him ? 

Why did they thus array him ? 

29. What further did they do? 
Where did they put the crown ? 
What did they place in his hand ? 
What did they do before him ? 
What did they say ? 

What was the object of all this? 

What had Jesus done, that he should be thus treated ? 

Why did he thus suffer ? 

30. What did they then do to him ? 

31. How did they now treat him? 
Whither did thev lead him ? 



172 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 40. 

32. "Whom did they meet as they came 
out? 

What did they compel him to do ? 

Where was Oyrene ? (See Bible Dictionary.) 

What is a cross ? 

Why was Simon compelled to bear his cross ? 

33. To what place did they come ? 
What is the meaning of the word? 

By what other name is this place known? (Calvary.) 
What is meant by, a place of a skull ? 

34. What did they give him here ? 
Did he drink it ? 

How ought this portion of Scripture to affect us ? 



LESSON XL. 

THE CRUCIFIXION. 
Chapter xxvii, 35-66. 

85. What was now done to our Lord ? 
What did they do with his garments ? 
What prophecy was then fulfilled ? 

Where is this prophecy recorded? (Psa. xxii, 18.) 
What is meant by, they parted his garments ? 
What by, casting lots ? 
How was the punishment of crucifixion performed? 

36. What did the soldiers then do ? 

Why did they watch him ? 



Ch. 27.] QUESTIONS 0$ MATTHEW. 173 

37. What was set over his head? 

What is meant by, his accusation I 

38. Who were crucified with him ? 
How were they placed ? 

39. How did those that passed by treat 
him? 

What is meant by, reviled him? 
What by, wagging their heads ? 

40. What did they say to him? 

To what did they refer in this remark ? 

Could Christ have come down from the cross if he had 

wished to do so ? 
Why did he not do so ? 

41. What did the chief priests do to him ? 

42. What did they say ? 
What did they bid him do ? 
What would they then do ? 

What did they mean by saying, he saved others ? 
What by, if he he the king of Israel ? 
What by, we will believe him f 

43. In whom, did they say, he trusted ? 
What should God do for him ? 

What had Christ said? 

What is meant by, he trmted in God t 
What by, if he will have him ? (If God really approves 
and favors him.) 

44. What did the thieves do ? 

What is meant by, cast the sam.e in his teeth ? 

45. What happened from the sixth to the 
ninth hour ? 



174 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Leg. 40. 

What part of the day was included between the sixth and 

ninth hour ? 
What caused this darkness ? 
What did it signify ? 

46. What occurred about the ninth hour ? 
What is the meaning of this expression ? 

What hour was the ninth hour ? 

What was offered at this hour? (At precisely three 

o'clock in the afternoon, the high-priest killed the 

Paschal lamb.) 
What scripture did our Lord repeat at this time? (Psa. 

xxii, 1.) 
In what language was this spoken? (It was in the 

Syro-Chaldaic, the language that was then prevalent 

in Judea.) 

47. What did some that heard this say ? 

How did they make this mistake ? 

48. What did one do ? 

Was this intended as an act of kindness ? 

49. What did the rest say? 

50. What did Jesus then do ? 

What occasioned this loud cry ? 

What is meant by, yielded up the Ghost ? 

51. What happened to the vail of the 
temple ? 

What to the earth and rocks? 

What was the vail of the temple ? (Exod. xxvi, 31, 33.) 
What was signified by its being rent ? (That the Mosaic 

dispensation was now abolished ; the way into the 

holiest laid open for Jew and Gentile, by the sacrifice 

of the Lamb of God.) 
What was signified by the quaking of the earth and 

rending of the rocks. 



Ch. 27.] QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 175 

52. What is said of the graves ? 
Who arose ? 

What is meant by, the graves were opened? 
Who are meant by, the saints? (Believers in Jesus who 
had lately died.) 

53. What did they do ? 
Whither did they go ? 

To whom did they appear ? 

What is meant by, after his resurrection t 

What by, the holy city ? 

What by, appeared unto many ? 

54. What did the centurion and those with 
him behold ? 

How were they affected ? 
What did they say ? 

Who is meant by the centurion ? 
"What excited their fears ? 

Why should these things lead them to say, this zoas the 
Son of God ? 

55. Who besides were present at this time ? 
How were they engaged ? 

For what purpose had they followed him 
from Galilee ? 

What is meant by, ministering unto him ? 

56. Who were among these ? 

Do you recollect who were the children of Zebedee ? 

57. What rich man came at even ? 
What was he ? 

What prophecy was thus fulfilled ? (Isa. liii, 9.) 
Where was Arimathea ? (See Bible Dictionary.) 
What is meant by, teas Jesus' disciple ? 



176 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Let. 10. 

58. To whom did he go ? 
For what did he ask ? 
What did Pilate command ? 

59. What did Joseph do with the body ? 

How were the Jews accustomed to bury their dead? 
(Bible Scholar's Manual, page 155.) 

60. Where did he lay it ? 
How did he close the tomb? 
What did he then do? 

Why did he roll a great stone against the door? 

61. Who were near at the time? 

Who is meant by, the other Mary ? 

What by, their sitting over against the sepulchre ? 

Why do you think these women lingered around ? 

62. What happened on the next day ? 

What is meant by, the day of preparation ? (The day 
preceding any Sabbath or feast.) 

How did the Jews reckon their days ? (The Jewish day 
began in the evening, consequently, V the next day" 
means that which began on the evening of the day on 
which Christ was crucified, namely, the Sabbath.) 

63. What did they say to Pilate ? 

Whom did they call a deceiver? 
Why did they thus call him ? 

64. What did they desire him to do? 
What reason did they give for this ? 
What would be the consequences ? 

Why did they think his disciples would steal the body ? 
What did they mean by, the last error shall be worse than 
the first t 



Ch. 28.] QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 177 

Can you think of any reason why we should rejoice that 
the enemies of Christ did take such care to watch his 
grave ? 

65. What did Pilate say to them ? 
What should they do ? " 

What did Pilate mean by, ye have a watch f 

66. What did they then do ? 

What is meant by, sealing the stone ? 
What by, setting a watch ? 

How ought we to feel as we read of the sufferings of the 
Lord Jesus Christ ? 



LESSON XLL 

THE RESURRECTION. 
Chapter xxviii, I»20. 

1. At what time does this chapter open ? 
Who came at this time to the sepulchre ? 

When did the Jewish Sabbath end? 
Why did these women come so early? 

2. What had occurred ? 
Who had descended ? 
What had he done ? 

3. What was the appearance of the angel ? 

4. How were the keepers affected ? 

Who are meant by, the keepers 1 
What by, their becoming as chad men? 
12 



178 QUESTIONS Otf MATTHEW. [Les.41. 

5. What did the angels say to the women? 

Why did the angel commence by telling them not to 

fear? 
How did the angel know whom they sought? 

6. What did the angel say of him ? 
What did he invite them to do ? 

7. What did he then enjoin upon them ? 
Where would he go ? 

What should happen in Galilee? 

What is meant by, goeth before you ? 

8. What did the women do ? 
Whither did they go ? 

Why were they filled with fear ? 
Why with great joy ? 

9. Who met them as they ran ? 
What did he say ? 

What did the women do ? 

What did they signify by this act? 

10. What did Jesus say to them ? 

What was signified by the words, go tell my brethren ? 

11. Who entered the city as they were 
going ? 

What did they do ? 

12. Who assembled together? 
What did they do ? 

What is meant by, they gave large money ? 

13. What did thev desire the soldiers to 
say? 



Ch.28.] QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. 179 

Why is such a story absurd as well as false ? 

14. What would they do if it came to the 
governor's ears ? 

What is meant by, persuade him ? 

What must have been the governor's character ? 

AYhy would the soldiers be unwilling to have such a 

story reach the governor's ears ? 
What is meant by, secure you ? 

15. What did the soldiers do? 
What is said of this saying ? 

What is meant by, commonly reported ? 
What by, until this day ? 

16. What did the eleven do? 
Into what part of Galilee ? 

Where was the ticelfth apostle at this time ? 
Have we any record of this appointment to meet them at 
Galilee ? (Matt, xxvi, 32.) 

17. How were they affected when they saw 
him ? 

What is said of some? 

Would this have been told if the whole narrative vrere 
not true ? 

Were these doubts removed ? (John xx, 25 and follow- 
ing verses.) 

"Do their doubts at first strengthen the evidence of our 
Lord's resurrection ? 

18. When Jesus came to them, what did he 
say? 

What do these words express? (Christ's universal do- 
minion as a mediator.) 

19. What great commission did he give 
them? 






180 QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW. [Les. 41. 

To whom is this command addressed ? 
What is here meant by, teach all nations ? 
What can we do to aid in this great work ? 
What relation may labor in the Sabbath school have to 
this duty ? 

20. What should they teach? 

What blessed promise does he make them? 

How may we know what things Jesus commanded his 

apostles ? 
What is meant by, / am with you ahvay ? 
Why should this be a source of encouragement ? 
What proof does this give of the divine character of our 

Lord ? 
What evidence have we that Christ has thus far been 

with his disciples ? 



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The Women of the Bible. By Charles Adams. 

12mo., pp. 225. Muslin SO 50 

Rev. Charles Adams has aimed to write a sober, faithful 
book, keeping his eye upon recorded facts and incidents, 
and restraining all undue license of the imagination.— 
Christian Advocate and Journal. 

In this book, the author has sought to contemplate woman 
precisely as the inspired pen has represented her, so far 
as she has arisen to view in the divine history of God's pro- 
vidential and gracious dispensations to mankind, and so far 
as that pen may have sketched more didactically her true 
position and duties. — Introduction. 



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IdumcBa. 

Idumsea. With a Survey of Arabia and the Arabians. 
With maps. 

18mo., pp. 213. Muslin $0 24 

A description of a country of high historic interest as the 
residence of the patriarch Job, and containing the site from 
whence came forth the Mosaic law ; this country was also 
the cradle of the sciences. — London Visitor. 

This volume .... contains a succinct view of the history, peo- 
ple, and present state of Idumasa, throwing much light on 
Scripture history, geography, and prophecy.-— Christian Ad- 
vocate and Journal. 

Johann, the German Emigrant Boy. 

Johann, the German Emigrant Boy. With an Account of 
his Religious Experience, Call to the Ministry, and 
Labors. With illustrations. 

18mo., pp. 170. Muslin SO 21 

Full of stirring incidents, well written, attractive in its style, 

and adapted to great usefulness, ... a capital gift-book for 

a boy. — Rev. Daniel Wise. 
It is a most instructive history, whoever may be the subject 

of it. — Northern Christian Advocate. 
A book that will be read with general interest.— Sunday 

School Advocate. — 
This will possess interest for the mature Christian, as well as 

for the Sunday-school scholar. — Southern Christian Advocate. 

Our English Bible. 

Our English Bible. 

18mo., pp. 218. Muslin SO 24 

The object of this book, which is well accomplished, is to 
give to those who peruse the Bible in our own language, 
information of the slow and painful steps by which oui 
incomparable translation of the Holy Scriptures has been 
furnished to them. The author is a master of his subject, 
and treats it with great ability. It is a little book of no 
ordinary merit. — Southern Christian Advocate. 

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Ancient Eg 

Ancient Egy^ ; 
18m©., p^>. 

lo the youthful student. of sacred history this work will afford 
a key to many of those beautiful figurative expressions used 
by inspired writers in the Old Testament. The mannerb 
and customs of th( ancient Egyptians are ably delineated, 
and cann< t fail to afford profit md instruction. It ... . 
will make an agreeable companion during an idle hour, 
or a leisure moment. — Christian Advocate and Journal. 

An account of one of the i st ancient and interesting coun • 
tries of the world. It furbishes a topographical description 
of Egypt, ... its history, especially as connected with tfcp 
F sriptures ; . . . and illustrations of the Bible, derived fro:' 
the whole history. — London Tract Magazine. 



\ Roland 1 'and. 

Boland Rand ; or, God's Poor. By Mrs. C. M. Edwards. | 

| With Illustrations. • 1 

ISxno., pp. 131. Muslin... $0 P j 

We have read it with great profit and delight, and we tiling 
that he who can read it without feeling prompted to nobler 
action, and without moistened eyes, has but little generov*? 
i emotion or philanthr >py.~Illinois Christian Advocate. 
The design of this narrative is to show the triumph of virtue 
over vice, and the necessity of active, energetic effon. on the ! 
1 part of the disciples of Christ. — Author's Preface. 

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; Women of the Bible. 

j The Women of the Bible. By Charles Adams. i 

12mo., pp. 225. Muslin.... $0 50 j 

! I v. Charles Adams lias aimed to write a l> > r, fa'thf i 
book, keeping his eye upon recorded fae^s av d incident , j 
2t d restraining all undue license of the Imagination. - 
' istian Advocate and Journal. 
?;, uiils book, the author has sought to contemplate woman 
ecisely as the inspired pen has represented her, so far 
•. o sne has arisen to view in the divine history of God's pro- 
vidential and gracious dispensations to mankind, and so far 
as that pen may have sketched more didactically her true 
position and duties. — Introduction. 



